Sentence examples for bashful in from inspiring English sources

If he doesn't, we won't be bashful in our response.

But markets weren't bashful in providing a real-time picture of their economic outlook.

But they were also not bashful in saying that money was one factor and described themselves as business-minded stewards more than as artistic tastemakers.

Shaiman, who is shortish and bearded and bashful in his demeanor, rolled his desk chair from computer control deck to piano and back, pressing a few buttons here and a few keys there, but mostly just hovering and bouncing up and down.

An 11-year-old boy from an Irish village, whose previous biggest role was as Bashful in a local production of Snow White, has been named one of the breakthrough stars of the year after receiving a surprise nomination for the British Comedy Awards.

Mr. Smith most recently managed the unsuccessful United States Senate bid of former Representative Bob Franks, whose campaign was almost single-minded in its demand that Jon S. Corzine release his own personal tax returns, and was not bashful in speculating on what unsavory investments Mr. Corzine might be trying to hide.

And though Zack Morris has now graduated from wise guy Bayside student to wise guy lawyer, a certain little on-set mishap is still a bit of a titillating affair: Mark-Paul Gosselaar put the Bash in bashful.

She is well supported by Patrick Bridgman, as her bashful fellow-in-folk (maybe, as yet, a little too restricted by Stephen's repressedness), and by Chloe Harris, deftly transiting clashing teenage states of innocence and experience.

He won his first Olivier in 1993, as a bashful Benedict in Matthew Warchus's Much Ado, then took on the artistic directorship of the Globe for a decade from 1995, delivering big returns before burnout and boardroom clashes led him to exit.

The great homebody's paintings — furiously dense still-lifes, interiors, and the odd self-portrait, made in the South of France in the two decades before his death, in 1947 — go all out for encrusted dazzle, with drenching color that tilts toward enthusiastic orange, in one mood, and toward bashful violet, in another.

It is about a bashful officer in the Tsarist army who is invited to a social gathering in a villa.