Sentence examples for extremely timid from inspiring English sources

Reading, who had become bolder as the half progressed after an extremely timid start, should have been ahead before the Bennett boys made their marks on the game, however.

In fact, he wrote in the Journal of the African Society, "there appears to me to be only a remote chance of a sportsman coming across these extremely timid denizens of the forest undergrowth".

An unusually profligate final over from Lasith Malinga gave New Zealand a win in the tournament opener, and it then needed an extremely timid performance from Zimbabwe's batsmen to ensure that Kumar Sangakkara's side weren't bounced out thanks to Duckworth-Lewis.

Until recently, most journalists have been extremely timid about confronting Big Pharma's hijacking of psychiatry.

Pohren described de Lucía as "extremely timid and retiring", saying that, "Being a very private person, [he] was dismayed at the ensuing popularity and lionization, and the increased pressure fame placed upon his shoulders, demanding that he constantly innovate and work harder to achieve technical and revolutionary perfection".

The EU, which has repeatedly violated the sovereignty of member nations for the sin of running deficits, and extracted severe punishments that resulted in deeper economic collapse, has been extremely timid about enforcing Article 7 of the EU's founding treaty, which requires all members to be democracies.

Before coming out, I was extremely insecure, timid and defensive.

On the Democratic side, an archetypal winner was the timid and extremely well-off John Kerry; when it comes to the Republicans, look at any number of former wealthy hopefuls (in their different ways, both John McCain and Mitt Romney fit the bill).

Black people are to be extremely submissive, disciplined and timid.

I think he's extremely cautious, overly cautious and even timid.

Mrs May refused to accept complaints that politicians were overstepping the line after the head of Scotland Yard attacked "extremely hurtful and untrue" claims that police had been timid.