"If you're shy, you might be like, 'I wish I could participate more, or I feel held back and this is uncomfortable,'" Genova says.
I have never felt held back by my inability to perform speedy additions of absurdly large numbers.
Smith often has to fight, with great eloquence, the idea of identity-based role models, and in that vein I've never felt held back by the lack of Chinese-English authors in the western literary canon.
They were talented and smart women who felt held back by society.
He wanted to be an actor from the age of five but felt held back by a lack of confidence; his parents gave him a legal change of name to anglicise it when he was young.
"I know there are gay people who have conservative values – like wanting us to be supportive of business and enterprise, wanting to have strong defence, believing in the strong defence of liberty and these kind of things – but in the past have felt held back because the Conservative Party was sending them a signal that we didn't support them or their lifestyle," he says in one long gulp of prose.
If a person felt held back at school by being in a class with less smart kids, this frustration with teamwork can develop early — you know what this feels like if you routinely did most of the work on group projects, or got scolded for daydreaming during a class that was moving too slowly for you.
"We created this brand for women who felt held back, who wanted a community to belong to, who felt like they wanted more options to express themselves," McIlroy says.
He was itching to delve into his other musical influences, like the Smiths, the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr., but felt held back.
But even as she gathered accolades — she was dubbed a "hero" by CNN in 2010 — she felt held back by her felonies.
Two heroin addicts we spoke with in Beckley, for example, felt held back by the fact that there is no state-funded medicated detox.
