Though there is never any doubt as to whether the title character, a rather spineless young man raised in a strict Hasidic community, will be able to resist the lure of secular New York City, Mr. Vardy resists mocking the way of life Mendy is leaving behind and forces him to carry a heavy sackful of regret for most of the way.
One of the most surprising things about Tyler's fiction is its appeal to men, especially as her male characters are generally spineless, emotionally repressed nerds, such as Macon Leary, the travel writer who hates to travel in The Accidental Tourist.
There are a few days in July at this ambitious festival where in the space of a few hours you might take in Chekhov's "Three Sisters" and then see how a much later playwright, Brian Friel, imagined what would happen if one of its characters (Andrei Prozorov, the spineless brother) met up with Sonya Serebriakova from "Uncle Vanya".
Chris Addison's The Thick of It character Ollie Reeder, a flimsy, spineless limpet of an adviser, was replaced by flimsy, spineless and unfaithful limpet Toby.
(Mr. Pendleton credibly plays the role of her spineless husband).
When writing for his own features, Clouzot created characters that were usually corrupt and spineless, with the capacity for both good and evil within them.
In the mid-20th century, however, the long-suffering and saintly character came to be seen as submissive and spineless.
He's stiff, but they're spineless, draped over rattan chairs, flaunting their lazy lack of character.
Objectively speaking, Judith is the most appealing -- and by far the most sensible -- character in the movie, though her attraction to the spineless and uninteresting Silverman does seem a bit odd.
Wimp, from the verb whimper, and influenced by the blimplike, mild-mannered cartoon character Wimpy, freeloader friend of Popeye the Sailor, means "a spineless, gutless, harmless person".
