Sentence examples for both timid and from inspiring English sources

Adolescents, college kids, musicians, hobbyists, and aspirants both timid and bold regard Webb as an authority on matters of dress — especially rock-and-roll style, especially high-punk-rock style, which he epitomizes.

Adolescents, college kids, musicians, hobbyists, and aspirants both timid and bold regard Webb as an authority on matters of dress especially rock-and-roll style, especially high-punk-rock style, which he epitomizes.

There is only one, enormously complicated Shostakovich, who is captured here in an array of photographs and woven into newsreels and propaganda films a man both timid and bold, circumspect and hortatory, and always deeply hidden.

Though she cultivates a reputation for being both timid and intimidating, some of her friends — among them Carla Sozzani, the Milanese retailer and gallerist, and Azzedine Alaïa, the couturier — assured me that, in private, Kawakubo can be a charming pal, congenial and even "hysterically funny".

Re "Team Chosen for Project to Develop Transit Hub" (news article, July 18): Although it's good to know that the James A. Farley Post Office is finally being transformed into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Station, it is disappointing to see David Childs's dramatic reinterpretation of Charles McKim's wondrous concourse roof being replaced by a design that appears to be both timid and banal.

His choice proved him to be both timid and insecure.

Mr Miliband's plans for solving Britain's most pressing problems manage to be both too timid and implausibly ambitious.In this section If at first you don't succeed Money for nothing?

Murray, sadly, doesn't play the losing game as well as his predecessor, Tim Henman, a nonpareil with a name to fail for, close both to timid and a female chicken.

Early on he had become friends with another flawed officer, Sherman, who had been publically accused of being both "timid" as well as "insane" and sent into military limbo before redeeming himself with the army during Grant's push south.

Surprisingly, we were both met with someone fairly timid and wary of saying the wrong thing.

She described the man she had been with as very "timid" and said they both had fallen asleep with their clothes on shortly after they had gone to his room at the Hotel Caribe.