Sentence examples for by a timid from inspiring English sources

The black night is partially lit by a timid half-moon, and the packed snow on the streets gleams cold blue.

But the market is deformed by a new degenerate capitalism, under-regulated by a timid government, and too removed to be embarrassed by public outrage.

"I thought there was an opportunity for the left to try and understand that, by a timid acceptance of the politics of austerity, we had lost ourselves the election," he told me.

Reunited with Clarke, Slocombe and Auric, he fashioned a fanciful comedy around the theft of gold bullion by a gang of thieves led by a timid Bank of England messenger, in the form of Alec Guinness.

Last year there was a slight improvement, albeit achieved by raising more than 0.5% of GDP from selling minority stakes in state companies on the stockmarket.Because it is financed domestically by a timid banking system that keeps 40% of its assets in government debt, the deficit has not yet brought the crisis advertised by gloom-mongers.

Absolutely Fabulous is reasonably good fun – although I would have liked to see a dramatisation of the classic Kate Moss anecdote, doing a dystopia-chic fashion shoot in a ruined building and being told by a timid assistant that the only toilets she could use were ones with no doors.

Mr. Del Toro is not, by all accounts, a timid soul.

First, Tom Kean Jr. angered the party's conservative wing by acting like a timid moderate.

The antihero, Billy Pilgrim (played, from youth to old age, by Darren Curley, Dustin Olson and Gregory Konow), is a timid optometrist pinballing in time.

As he had written in his 1942 book "Party Government," the two parties "let themselves be harried by pressure groups as a timid whale might be pursued by a school of minnows".

It has also long had a reputation as being unmanageable: in 1999 its main campus was occupied for months by students protesting against a timid attempt to introduce fees.