THE leading Republican presidential candidates might sound timid to non-Southerners when they insist that the people of South Carolina should decide whether the Confederate flag should fly above the State Capitol.
The discs also include surround-sound DVD-audio remixes and rare video, for a body of work that makes arty younger bands sound timid, even without live material.
Among her bêtes noirs is "upspeak," a vocal mannerism particularly manifested in women, which she claims sounds unsure and timid, and which she feels works against women in professional settings, a topic covered memorably in Lake Bell's 2013 film In a World.
But sharing the bill with the Walkmen, Tennis sounded like timid neatniks, too content within their genre.
No one is suggesting that Mr Cameron should sound a timid, defeatist note when it comes to Isis and its odious actions.
There's not a single bad lyric here, and not a note sounds false or timid.
Belatedly, Mr Blair seems to acknowledge that he should be seen to make a principled stand over the treatment of these men, but he sounds too much like a timid supplicant.The aftermath of the war has left plenty for the coalition partners to disagree about.
This speeds things up, because people standing in front of an author and meeting the author's eyes are likely to get timid and dry-throated and say "Zassfrank Dooselinch" or what sounds like "Zassfrank Dooselinch" to the author.
So timid it sounded like it was apologising for bothering you ("Oh, I never meant to cause you trouble"), its wan balladry was enough to make you wonder how rock music became so beige.
