Sentence examples for more timid when from inspiring English sources
"Whereas producers will go to extraordinary lengths to find the next reality or entertainment format, we seem to be much more timid when it comes to drama," added Ms Heggessey, speaking at the Royal Television Society Cambridge convention last night.
Lorraine Heggessey, the former BBC1 controller who joined Talkback Thames as the chief executive in May, said UK producers had been very good at coming up with big international reality and entertainment hits such as Pop Idol and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, but seemed more timid when it came to drama.
In many ways the organization is more timid and disorganized than a few years ago, when democracy seemed to be ascendant in Latin America and leaders paid more attention to the O.A.S.
"Even with full employment, workers may be more timid than in earlier periods of full employment, when unions were also stronger," said Jared Bernstein, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
It also reflects a more timid — and perhaps chastened — industry than in previous decades when aggressive executives competed fiercely with each other.
"When I was 15, I was much more timid".
A group of high schoolers captured national attention last year when they channeled some bubble era confidence into this more timid time.
The more timid reader would do well to remember these forerunners, and the conditions that fostered them, when confronted with young Lowell's fierce indignation.
When it comes to bold visions and big thinking on nuclear disarmament, today's more timid breed of Republicans (and Democrats), beholden as they are to the military-industrial complex that Ike warned us about, are "no Ronald Reagans".
If you felt timid when it came to vegetables when you were young, are you now open to a more adventurous approach?
Astonishing, when you think about it -- instead of the usual "we've got to be more timid!" Democratic knee-jerk response, we're about to see "we've got to get stronger!" for once.
