Sentence examples for increasingly timid from inspiring English sources

The idea is that as commercial radio has become increasingly timid, canned and predictable, there is an opportunity for a station like KCRW to leverage its tastemaker status.

Mrs. Andrews, meanwhile, had become increasingly timid with the drum major, rarely addressing him directly, and it was with a kind of flourish that she finally called on him in class one morning.

As two powerful groups of drug traffickers engaged in fierce urban combat in Reynosa in recent weeks, the reality that many residents were living and the one that the increasingly timid news media and the image-conscious politicians portrayed were difficult to reconcile.

On personal taxes he promised only to preserve Mr Bush's tax cuts (which would keep the top rate at 35% rather than returning it to 39.6%), while murmuring that one day broader reform, involving lower rates and a broader base, might follow.But those proposals increasingly looked timid next to the heftier, and more irresponsible, tax cuts his rivals rushed to embrace.

As educators and parents, we marvel at the bold, inquisitive, and playful spirits that preschoolers bring to the world; and we observe with heavy hearts that many become increasingly disengaged, timid, and unhappy as they advance through their years at school.

The tech press in America, but increasingly elsewhere, is timid.

At a time when many are seeking small-press alternatives because they believe that conventional publishing is dying, in large part because it has turned timid, increasingly unvaried and run by its bean-counters, it is heartening to see that the big guys still have a champion.

In recent years the British political parties and the leaders of our public services have become increasingly media-facing, too timid of the power of the press, too eager to keep the media on-side.

Always timid, Mr. Saint Laurent became increasingly reclusive.

It also learned of the increasingly desperate attempts of a depressed, timid single mother with borderline learning difficulties herself to attract the sustained attention of officialdom to her plight.

They grow increasingly frustrated as members of Congress emerge from their marble corridors for obligatory listening tours, only to offer timid, half-hearted measures.