How can I write a complicated sentence with a combination of two words, given the depth of meaning you’re searching for? Coward, fainthearted, invertebrate, recreant (though this usually means with intent) are just a few.

Some were so fearful for their own lives that they would rather turn a blind eye to the atrocities occurring right infront of them. What is something that everybody knows and always happens with

alarming frequency, and ever before?