Sentence examples for bashful that from inspiring English sources

The many sightseers in the area aren't bashful: that was John Lennon's building, said a man to a boy recently by the Dakota, at 1 West 72nd Street, with its mansion-like gabled roof.

Melania looked lovely, and the fifty-eight-year-old Donald — as a friend of the family, I was bound to call him and his wife by their Christian names, even if Donald reportedly liked being called "Mr. Trump" — looked uncharacteristically bashful; bashful, that is, by comparison with his character on "The Apprentice".

In a new interview posted on Perez's site, the Cuban blogger asks the bashful "That 70's Show" star point blank about Demi.

Chuckling and bashful, that rosy-cheeked sociologist admitted, "Yeah, it is kind of like a cult".

"I am not bashful about that," Mr. Obama said at the Democratic candidates' debate on Jan . 31

She's a bit bashful about that writing now: "Many people have gone and looked back at the files of the Village Voice, which was a passionate subculture," she said, "And you know, it's all very dated".

He began singing on these albums, nursing a bashful falsetto that's hazier than Eddie Holman's and grainier than André 3000's; it's among the most arresting modern pop has to offer.

The orchestration, which Wainwright accomplished with the help of assistants, takes delight in the color-box of Debussy and Ravel, but it has an impish playfulness, and a certain bashful luxury, that seems sui generis Act II is a different story.

Patricia Baran carries herself with the height and stature of an eldest child--she has three little sisters and four little brothers--but with a bashful shyness that surpasses many 16-year-olds.

If you've never seen a plant called a touch-me-not before, it's a "bashful" herb that grows in warm climate areas and has the unusual characteristic of shrinking from human touch and folding inward, as if hiding, only to reopen minutes later.

There's the agony of abandonment as one of your fellow dancers whose bashful smiles that acknowledged the silliness of this whole thing was the glue keeping the damn project together succumbs to the pull and safety of ignominy and leaves the dance floor, sending the whole endeavor teetering on the edge of destruction.