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?
