Sentence examples for a timidity from inspiring English sources

There was a nervousness, a timidity.

Is there a timidity among film-makers these days?

There still is a timidity to say anything that would lend them being accused of being soft on crime.

"Too often people who are recent immigrants have a timidity, and do not speak up," Mr. Sutton said.

As Maria admitted in a letter to Eyre when she was in her sixties, her roar masked a timidity, which she felt she must conceal.

What ails the euro zone is not a Teutonic allergy to inflation, or a timidity about extending loans, but what economists call the tragedy of the commons.

In the second half of his life he had to work out whether this conflict that pervaded, as Foster shows, every area of his life - the erotic, the intellectual, the political - revealed a debilitating timidity or an unusual courage.

On the other hand, "Winter Moon" (1985) by C. J. Wells, an Arikara-Picuris, an oil on linen work, has a ghostly timidity about it.

"Whatever faults Tom Stoppard may possess as a screenwriter and Joe Wright as a director, timidity cannot be counted among them.

What we see, for the most part, an art in which an awesome technical proficiency is combined with a basic timidity of imagination.

Ever since Mr. Ashcroft cowed the committee in December with a bombastic lecture about security, there has been a distressing timidity in the Senate about the Bush administration's aggressive expansion of federal investigative powers.