The sexually assertive woman was timidly validated, but she was still in a daze.
Mr. Woodham-Smith, who is showing an 1825 Empire table from the Skottorp Palace in Sweden, priced at $315,000, said that he was "timidly optimistic".
A rental car was timidly approaching a roundabout that must have looked like a death spiral to Richard Williams during one of his first attempts at English driving rules.
But the food -- even seemingly lusty preparations like shepherd's pie ($17), pork sausage with polenta ($15) and slow-braised beef shin with escarole ($18) -- was timidly seasoned.
The joke photograph in which he and his friend Paul Ree posed in a cart over which Lou Salome, the 21-year-old woman with whom he was timidly, desperately in love, held a whip.
The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll's hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay's plate.
It was five minutes to curtain time, and here we all were, timidly shuffling forward as the long line slowly snaked into the theater.
It is far better to be in the arena dancing with life and taking some tumbles than to be timidly watching from the sidelines.
These are timidly being introduced for large American managers, though only regulators will get a peek.
Too often, though, main courses were timidly seasoned and lacked identity.
