One urges a 'wait and see' stance, a recipe for moral cowardice and political naivety.

The empty boastfulness and rubbishy motivational jargon have become the format's standard accessories, as have the back-biting, treachery and all-round moral cowardice.

To take to it with a chisel would be an act of intellectual laziness and moral cowardice.

In the modern world, compassion easily slides into sentimentality and moral cowardice.

That doesn't mean we sacrifice our convictions or surrender to moral cowardice.