Perhaps McQueary did not act because he is a coward.

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Correa began to back off from his authoritarian policies, not like a hero but very much like a coward.

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Computerized speech dictation will not make a doer out of a procrastinator or a hero out of a coward.

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The water had been cold, her teeth had chattered, but her hands had not let go of the oar perhaps she had been a true coward, or perhaps she had been overcome by animal instinct, hanging on to life blindly.

NEWYORKER: Alone