Sentence examples for a timid man. from inspiring English sources

She picked up two titles, one of them called My Father Is a Timid Man, the other, My Mother Is a Violent Woman.

Hollywood has been interested in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" since Thurber's story was first published: the idea of a timid man who longs to do momentous things is an extraordinarily relatable one.

My father was a timid man, my mother was not a violent woman but very open, and sort of a firebrand and distressed by injustices, and my father would say you're always trying to set the world right.

Described his grandfather, a domineering, proud man, his grandmother, much attached to her farm, his mother, much like her father, and his father, a timid man who taught school in the town.

"I am a timid man, and don't like violence, and am pretty sick of adventure," he writes in the first chapter, then goes on to tell a tale that could knock the snakes off Indiana Jones.

She is also convincing in two Puccini arias, "O mio babbino caro" and "Quando me n'vò." Ms. Cabell also sings arias recorded less often, including "Les belles fleurs!" from Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" in a virtuosic performance and "What a curse for a woman is a timid man" from Menotti's "Old Maid and the Thief" in a winning rendition.

If you've ever wondered where reality television falls on the authentic to producer-orchestrated scale, I'll offer Evan to you as an answer, a shriveled, timid man whose craft is resurrecting broken cocks.

A waterfall-obsessed interpreter gets lost in Shanghai; a normally timid man tries to reach a mysterious "Zone," to the bewilderment of his friends.

A private, timid man who married late in life, Mahfouz is a strong believer, a bit of a mystic, and a Fabian socialist of the most passionate sort.

Like many a brave soldier before him, Weatherill was a rather timid man in civil situations.

His wife, Adele (Catherine Keener), leaves him, condemning him on the way out as a small, timid man who will never do anything meaningful.