Conservatives complain that many Republican appointees to the Supreme Court "drift to the left" because they come from "the intelligentsia," want to be loved by "liberal elites" or are simply weak.
Hamlet is a somewhat similar character: far from being simply weak (as Goethe thought), Hamlet, in Hegel's view, displays the inner beauty of a profoundly noble soul (Aesthetics, 1: 583; PKÄ, 147 8).
Terrible," he said disapprovingly, clearly relishing that the word had now been associated with the Texas senator, and further demonstrating his simplistic view of leadership as being simply weak or strong.
He wrote: "People who today are falling into depression and defeatism, commenting that there are not enough guarantees, that everything could end badly, that we might again end up in a marasmus of censorship and trials, that this or that could happen, are simply weak people, who can live only in illusions of certainty".
Wind energy is simply too weak.
A good hypocrite believes in the values he professes but is simply too weak to live up to them.
This is hardly surprising, as outside of the export-orientated sectors of the economy, demand is simply too weak.
While the civilian government has made some paramilitary arrests and sacked several army officers with strong ties, it is simply too weak to resist the increasingly overt collaboration.
Justice David H. Souter is no doubt correct in asserting that the majority decision in Mitchell v. Helms represents a break with the Supreme Court's precedents, but more important, the decision makes clear that the Establishment Clause is simply too weak to preserve our system of public education.
