Sentence examples for bashful man from inspiring English sources

"I came to feed my family, and myself," said Nouha Marega, a bashful man who is 32.

The young Japanese soldier Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a gentle baker who was conscripted into the Army and just wants to get back to his family, is meant to be a life-affirming figure among the death cultists, but, as constructed by the screenwriter, Iris Yamashita, he's a slight and bashful man who can't carry the philosophical weight assigned to him.

A bashful man (he could be a von Trapp sibling in "The Sound of Music") in a flannel shirt and tan work boots, Mr. Bell has himself come a long way from the kind of work he did as a graduate with architecture degrees from Princeton and Yale.

Some shops were said to be squeamish about displaying bras and the first editions were packaged in black boxes to make it easier for bashful men to sell, but the first 40 produced quickly sold out and in the second year sales were worth $500,000.

Marciano, the bashful white man who served his country in the second world war, and Ali, the brash Afro-American draft dodger, found themselves getting on famously.

Upstairs, Michael, a bashful, balding man of 31 who works part time in the Larchmont Public Library, was tidying his already orderly room.

The director, Karen Burns, forty-one and bashful with men, fancies herself in love with the driver.

It is customary now to have a uniformed young woman on the train as director of entertainment, whose function it is to introduce people to one another, to persuade them to play games no matter how reluctant they may be, to dance with bashful young men, and so on.

Mercer's L.A.-area neighbor Derrick McClendon, 42, similarly described a "bashful" and "timid" man who kept to himself.

It has been a surprising culmination of an already notable career that saw this quiet man with a bashful smile rise from a junior naval officer who interrogated Japanese prisoners during World War II to a founder of Japanese studies in the United States.

Thomas, sounding bashful, shrugs and thanks the man.