Possible Clues:

• Fish cakes flipping green, with dessert being yellow
• Severe lack of courage
• Lacking of courage when Noel is skating, it seems?
• Option husband rejected, concealing protégé's fearfulness
• Face down in a cereal, daughter's failure to stand up
• Business fighting over bones, showing pusillanimity
• Dramatist confronts nits dismissing first character for lack of grit
• A crowd milling around on glacier maybe showing timidity
• Fear those spotted behind bovine are dropping back
• Company conflict over gamble shows lack of courage