I said you lie, knave!” shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. “And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!” The knight looked plaintively at Roger. “What’s wrong with this fellow?” He was dropped on his head when he was a baby,” answered Roger.
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.
Calculated and craven political stunt.
When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!
The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boygirl)!
I got very lucky to work with Wes Craven, very early on in my career, and continued to work with Wes for almost 19 years. I learned so much from him, and about his sense of story and his sense of horror, and that was great to be a part of.