Everything else about the book followed, more or less fortuitously, from that essentially craven and self-protective move.
One might redeem oneself through faith or works up to a point, but in practice, unless intellectuals were kept in a state of craven fear, they persisted in making trouble.
We are faced with a piece of nauseous and craven party pleading.
Let us not shrink from this mighty task out of any craven fear of being great.
Its ghastly, fawning apologies and its craven justifications will not be broadcast directly, so television interviewers will not be able to challenge it.
The spirit that infused some of the remarks that we have heard can only be described as craven.
But the craven consensus fobbed us off with trivial party sniping and phoney polarisation.
If a man wants to keep his fellow-countrymen out of war, you call him craven?
Not to have done so would have been an act of the most craven appeasement.
Of course, many actions are settled and very often the newspapers have been extremely craven in not fighting the cases.
We ask for no more; we should be cravens to take less.
A picture has been drawn of craven politicians hampering their admirals and generals in their bold designs.
I agree with him that there is "craven, ill-informed opportunism" in the document.
The crisis came and brought the answer to any craven fear.
That would be a short-sighted and a rather craven estimate of present needs and future prospects.
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