She was quite old, and had a timid, worried smile.
And as is clear from "Gucci Gucci," or from last year's "Kittys x Choppas" mixtape, she has a timid, fragile flow, though not without charm or comedy.
To rise above the ridiculousness of the material would have required figuring out how to make Jeanne into a heroine, and Ms. Swank has a timid, indecisive manner that shrinks the character.
What the hell do you expect of a kid who had a timid mouse of a father, frightened, panicky, whacked the daylights out of me when Mrs. True from upstairs accused me of pushing her kid to the sidewalk, which I never did, but the pack of little goyim he was with ran when I turned in mock menace.
Under most circumstances, the blacktip reef shark has a timid demeanor and is easily frightened away by swimmers.
Yet by diminishing him, Britain's voters have almost certainly ensured they will have a more timid, less radical government.
Paris St-Germain may have thought a timid, cautious performance might have gained them an unlikely point when Mbappe made it 2-2 so late on - but in reality it would have been a reward they barely deserved.
The only disappointment I've ever had is a timid treacle tart, lacking the texture and jamminess of the best.
—Rebecca Mead For me, the best book of 2015 was Kent Russell's essay collection "I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son," an amalgamation of reported pieces and interstitial vignettes that form a skewering, breath-catching, wildly smart evocation of contemporary masculinity.
