Sentence examples for becoming timid from inspiring English sources

Other advanced economies in the West, the argument runs, are already ageing and shrinking and societies are becoming timid, peevish and introspective.

They think yesterday's outcome means Americans are becoming more timid.

Becoming a timid investor too soon, she added, would be a big one.

If you haven't heard of her, it's because she is yet to be published in the UK, from which one might conclude that British publishing is becoming too timid for its own good.

With 600 Japanese troops taking part in the UN's peacekeeping operation in East Timor, and polls suggesting that a clear majority now favour a bigger peacekeeping role for Japan, it seems that the Japanese are becoming less timid about the use of force.

He hasn't missed all of those free throws and isn't responsible for scoring extraordinaire James Harden suddenly becoming a timid offensive player.

The prim suddenly acting slutty, the shy becoming garrulous, the timid becoming forthright, the passive becoming aggressive, and so on.

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal.

But, as I'm fast becoming aware, the timid world of the bicycle user is actually anything but.

And if you want it to remain strong, don't cook it -- horseradish loses its intensity as it cooks, becoming mild, even timid.

Basically, right now the film industry is becoming more and more timid and even overcautious.