Sam was a dreamy
milksop, who nevertheless volunteered for the South.
A peoples' contest: what caused the Civil War? How was it fought? Should it have been fought?
We wanted a ruggedly masculine type, not a Dresden-fragile
milksop with a girlish peaches-andcream complexion.
Year of Pretty Boy at Beeb
In the end, Traverse is not "obviously a sissy" or a "
milksop" (208), as Alfred Habegger declares, but, according to Southworth's narrator, a "young Paladin" to Capitola's "Chevalier Bayard" (425, 351).
"I am the hero of a fairy tale": the US-Mexico War and American manhood in E. D. E. N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand
Not a
milksop. To govern a country like Russia or others, one must have character, willpower, the courage to make a decision and assume the responsibility for it, or get out.
Mikhail Gorbachev, European: in Sofia for a conference, the first and last president of the Soviet Union gave an interview to Bulgarian National Television's Valery Marinov. Edited excerpts
A weakling is a "milk toast," or as Roosevelt himself once wrote, a "
milksop." He also once used the phrase "emasculated milk-and-water moralities" to condemn eastern elitism as opposed to western manly virtue.
Teddy Roosevelt, an American icon in butter
In stark contrast to these champagne-sipping mirages, we soon encounter Susan's corporeal husband, Gerald (Fred D' Angelo), a
milksop parish vicar who would rather spend his time writing his 60-page treatise on the history of the parish dating back to 1386, than attending to Susan's physical and emotional needs.
Real world and fantasy mix in thrilling psycho-drama
For Trollope, Fielding was the more preferable "sinner" to Richardson's "saint among novelists" (94); while Fielding, writes Tackeray, "couldn't do otherwise than laugh at the puny cockney bookseller, pouring out endless volumes of sentimental twaddle, and hold him up to scorn as a mollcoddle and a
milksop.[...] Richardson's goddess was attended by old maids and dowagers, and fed on muffins and bohea" (95).
Brian Corman. Women Novelists before Jane Austen: The Critics and their Canons
Meanwhile my parents pressure me: "You are just a
milksop. Can't you stand up for yourself?
Encounters with law: Russian-speaking Israelis in court
Authorities ranging from John Wilkes to Lord Hailsham have pretended that liberty dates from 'the Glorious Revolution', a
milksop affair neither glorious nor revolutionary, which retrieved from the end of the Stuart kings some of the gains made in 1649.
What the regicides did for us: far from being the bogeymen of history, Geoffrey Robertson QC says that the English regicides were men of principle who established our modern freedoms
He feels stifled in Rouen and cannot wait to escape to Paris, yet whenever anyone asks him how he likes it, he returns his ritual reply: "It's the sort of town I'd like to settle down in." When he first arrives in Rouen, he spends every ounce of his energy to keep up his tense smiling (22), and from that point forward the image he presents to the French is that of a smiling, nodding
milksop, hands clasped in front of him, mouthing what the French want to hear.
Shusaku Endo's "A Summer in Rouen": a tragicomedy of virtues unhad and goods ungained
Wink's interpretation of the New Testament is that Jesus was not a pacifist
milksop but (among other things) was encouraging people to resist the dominant power system of the era, that being the Roman Empire.
Neal Stephenson's past, present, and future: the author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America
But it has been the British way to ignore the Republic, to deplore the prosecution of the King and to pretend that liberty dates from what is dubbed 'the Glorious Revolution' of 1689--a
milksop affair neither glorious nor revolutionary, which merely retrieved from the fall of the Stuart kings some of the gains made in 1649.
Misusing history: the English Revolution and modern 'tyrants' trials'
Milksop. That's what editorials have become in the age of the editorial board.
Editorial board can be a foe of good writing: we have to stop reflecting our communities and start leading them
This superb actor (singer and dancer) has Suzanne Carley as his Sandy -the well known
milksop. In terms of talent these two performers are miles apart, but their singing duos are neatly accomplished.
Culture: Slick, emotionally-charged night; Grease Alexandra Theatre
She constantly assails him with contemptuous words, calling him at different times a "worm," "
Milksop!" and a "Chickenheart"; and after he has been beaten to a pulp defending her, she barely blinks, asking condescendingly, "Did the baby get beaten up?" Tendulkar never really shows why Bapu invests in a one-sided friendship, leaving the audience with a skeleton of a friendship that seems only to serve the purpose of reducing complex emotions to an essentialized critique of patriarchal society.
Vijay Tendulkar. Mitrachi Goshta: a Friend's Story