Sentence examples similar to initial timid from inspiring English sources

No matter how bad you think it has been, you have only been exposed to the initial, most timid, most limited, test-runs for everything yet to come.

Mr Godwin denied police had been too "timid" in their initial response to the riots on Saturday - but he said that "if police officers had the benefit of hindsight as foresight we would obviously do things slightly differently".

Within three weeks Roshan realized that its initial business plan, which called for 150,000 subscribers and $50 million in investments over five years, was too timid.

Nor timid.

He was timid, shy.

I was very timid.

That sounds too timid.

Yet bosses remain timid.

Nana had been timid.

"Timorous" means timid, but why not just say "timid"?

That's too timid.