Sentence examples for Timid from inspiring English sources

"Yet, in contrast to the tacit official encouragement of more liberal voices after 9/11, any debate within Saudi Arabia over the role of its official creed in fostering the group's extremism has been timid and largely confined to social media... "The Saudi authorities have been quick to condemn Isis.

And I shall try to be less timid; to be more sure, more bold.

Land owners were excoriated, the House of Lords demonised and his more timid colleagues brushed aside.

Whether it was through nerves or the heat, Tsonga was strangely timid in the early stages, unable or unwilling to cut loose in his usual swashbuckling style.

A timid child who tiptoed around his brooding father (as described in the third volume, Boyhood Island), he grew into a cripplingly self-conscious teenager, and then, by his own reckoning, an adult who is seldom happy in the company of others.

They played in different positions and their physical statures couldn't have been more contrasting – Dino was a tall, robust midfielder with short, cropped hair while Roberto was a small, timid, tortured-genius that sported a ponytail with beads at the tip – but Dino would spend a career playing in the shade of the trequartista, purely because they shared a surname.

Sean O'Faolain considered no one spared: "We see the prostitute, the beastly peasant, the timid bourgeois, the civil servant – his favourite subjects – in an unpitying light that exposes their wrinkled faces, their painted gums, their frayed cuffs, their shifty eyes, their hearts that have dried like peas".

I expect the elderly and the timid will hang on, possibly rebranding the party – perhaps as Liberals.

A timid opposition front bench will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to any proposed increase in tax revenues, or to the abandonment of conservative climate change and social welfare policies.

They put Labour on the side of the patient who sits, timid and overawed, in the doctor's waiting room.

"I still don't understand why, even after the last couple of years, Alistair is so timid.