As we spoke, a thirtyish lawyer in a pencil skirt approached us with a timid smile.
The apparently timid smile and laid-back character hides a competitive steel that defines him more than is usually appreciated.
"I'm feeling O.K.," she said last week with a timid smile, fingering the scar at her throat.
WITH his soulful eyes and timid smile, Murat Kara, a 40-year-old stocking seller in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, is an unlikely murderer.
Instantly recognizable by the scarves he wore, his glasses and often a timid smile, he did not have the appearance of a great statesman.
As he left the well of the courtroom, Mr. McCaffrey, wearing a lime-green V-neck sweater, a dark red tie and black slacks, cracked a timid smile.
Somers's much shorter-titled book "Touch Me" is a poetry collection (not to be confused with the Stanley Kunitz poem of the same name), published in 1980, which features a flax-banged Somers on the cover, blue eyes rimmed with black, a timid smile perhaps anticipating the backlash.
The house was airy and uncluttered, and Hunt Lieberson led me on a tour, pointing out a shelf of family photographs, including one that showed her at her first piano recital, when she was six or seven, a pretty girl with long, blond curls and a timid smile.
The young man who would end up winning, identified only as Steuart -- and who in reality has already had his meeting with Ms. Black -- nodded and flashed a timid smile.So, just how was Ms. Black of all the city's business notables chosen for the show, as a prize, no less?
I managed to coax a timid smile from Christina who had surveyed me with bashful inquisitiveness.
At first their eyes express shyness and shame, but soon a timid smile appears.
