Sentence examples for almost shy from inspiring English sources

He seemed tentative, almost shy.

I have to almost shy away from it".

What schmoozing he did was unobtrusive, almost shy.

Compared to Big Mal, Mancini was almost shy.

"There is," as Michael Palin told me, "a side of Alan that is bashful, almost shy.

Proud people, quieter, almost shy, sitting still at the night bazaar selling their goods.

It almost shies away from the listener as it transpires, longing to return to the silence whence it came.

When I hear Gelb talk about "opera as theatre," I feel that he is almost shying away from its essential nature.

My mother, in contrast, seemed almost pathologically shy.

"He was almost painfully shy," Eizenstat told me.

"I almost felt shy to be there, like I was seeing something that was very intimate".