"As a major virtue, courage helps to define the excellent person and is no mere optional trait," writes George Kateb, a political theorist and emeritus professor at Princeton University.
He said: "Politicians have shown a major lack of courage on this.
No method can erase the anxiety with which flight phobics must learn to cope, and no method can succeed without a major dose of courage.
The Lib Dems, along with the SNP, are the only major party with the courage to stand, unequivocally, against Brexit.
Here is a daring film in which a major actor had the courage and the trust to go beyond the ordinary and the expected.
It is not easy to find coaches and, yes, lack of courage is a major part of it.
This was a time when it took some courage for a major politician to talk seriously about fighting poverty.
New Zealand represent a formidable obstacle but the England coach, Steve McNamara, should be congratulated for having the courage to make major changes when the circumstances demand them.
But changes to the overall makeup of the workforce, were they to be introduced nationally, would require political courage of a major degree.
One can only wonder if, in the current age of hubris, unapologetic imperialism and chest-thumping militarism, a major studio will have the courage to allow Mr. Russell, or anyone else, to make a similar movie a few years from now about Gulf II.
