meek

Thomas, the gentler of the two, draws most of Ray’s abuse, and it shapes him into a meek and easily frightened being.

It was the type of meek resistance usually saved for the end of an Ashes tour when heads are scrambled.

Rather than falling in a flurry of expansive strokes, they lacked any sort of batting rhythm and a meek procession against canny yet unspectacular bowling followed.

Starring in writer-director Alex Russell’s “Lurker,” a gripping psychological thriller that explores the insidious parasocial bond between a rising pop star and a seemingly meek retail employee, which is out in theaters Friday.

It’s a luxury, a quantum leap, one that can save your imagination from a propensity to meek fatalism or received social patterns.