And they clearly have scored weaponry gains by pitting a bold and aggressive policy against our timidity and indecision.
A big event that plays to my scope and against my timidity will be my 90th birthday party.
Devised to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Mr. Anderson's death (and originally performed onstage at the 2004 Edinburgh Festival), "Never Apologize" reveals its subject as a self-described dissident who valued risk and railed against the artistic timidity of his peers.
The Qataris have managed, as well, to have friends among hard-line Islamist groups — a State Department cable released through WikiLeaks criticized their timidity against terrorists — while at the same time serving as the longtime hosts of America's biggest military base in the Middle East, the forward headquarters of the Pentagon's Central Command, at Al Udeid Air Base.
He believes devoutly in the politics of value now being propounded by groups like the Democratic Leadership Council, which he led from 1995 until last year; in his most recent book, "In Praise of Public Life," he inveighs against the "moral timidity" that prevents the secular-minded from criticizing destructive behavior.
This morning he hit out against a culture of timidity in Britain, saying: "In Britain no one wants to take any risks, and good architecture often comes out of risk.
Add to that the timidity shown against Germany, bar one injury time surge, and we're left with minutes five through 95 against Portugal and minutes 115 to 130 against Belgium as the periods to which Klinsmann can point if he wants to display something resembling the loose adaptation of his German model he wanted when he started the job.
The opening scenes, in which Pandarus, Cressida's louche uncle who is kept just this side of creepy by a brilliant John Glover, encourages his niece's flirtation with Troilus, a lovesick warrior with floppy hair who, with exactly the right ratio of courage to timidity, bumps up against the object of his desire only to retreat at the first whiff of rejection.
In the summer he died, we watched several Euro 2004 games together and he railed against England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's timidity and refusal to substitute captain David Beckham.
The worrisome aspect was that the Clinton people fought so hard against it -- fighting for timidity rather than leadership, as Democrats have been regularly doing on the issue ever since they were badly spooked by Republican charges of being "soft on crime," back in the 1980s and 1990s.
