weak-kneed

Behind his counter he was a superior being, calmly conscious of special knowledge and worth; outside he was a weak-kneed, purblind, motorman-cursed rambler, with ill-fitting clothes stained with chemicals and smelling of socotrine aloes and valerianate of ammonia.

Every vehicle that passes he expects is going to run into him; and he never finds himself ascending or descending a hill without immediately beginning to speculate upon his chances, supposing--as seems extremely probable--that the weak-kneed controller of his destiny should let go.

Winks was the master of the upper third, a weak-kneed man with drooping eye-lids, He was too tall for his strength, and his movements were slow and languid.

The Trojans are a weak-kneed people, or ere this you would have had a shirt of stones for the wrongs you have done them."

Beauty Smith was known far and wide as the weakest of weak-kneed and snivelling cowards.

This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo's beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture.

The weak-kneed Cameron presided over a categoric vote to Leave.

As for our weak-kneed council - well I just despair.

Capinding could have just stayed in the comfort zone of self-righteous fury, but he goes beyond that-Sokrates as irreverent as a jester, weak-kneed at the thought of his own mortality, and fun-loving as a child.

The storm passes, but then, Fi is called away from the Climbing Rose's opening soiree when Kipling, the tiny village's weak-kneed volunteer police chief, finds a dead body on the beach.

Our weak-kneed president and his war mongering vice president backed by the war dept.

As liberals largely react by arguing that the real domestic threat is the far right, the weak-kneed centrist position appears to be anxiety about protests in general: Many city leaders and college administrators now see any event where left and right might clash as a threat to public order.