Sentence examples for more timorous from inspiring English sources

But they also draw more timorous fans.

Today the movies seem more timorous.

Distinguished by a cherry-red birthmark on his cheek, Lix is rather more timorous than he at first appears -- "He'd lost the knack of being normal and offstage".

They claim that their co-religionists welcome them warmly, while more timorous European and Asian competitors stay away.But it is in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, that Turkey's domestic political woes will find most resonance.

Alan grows more timorous and emasculated, but his wife starts secretly nurturing the forbidden plants, encouraged by Duke (Dion Mucciacito), a hunky security guard whose multiethnic roots stretch back to the swamp.

The Massachusetts Democrat responded with a question of his own: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" None of the I-respect-your-opinion razzmatazz being mouthed by more timorous politicians.

Even mid-career, the recession generation not only takes home a thinner paycheck, it is lower down the corporate hierarchy and more professionally timorous.

Many were brought back, more loyal and timorous than ever.

Somehow, he says, the world seems so much more conservative and timorous than it was.

At the same time, Mr. Updike's self-imposed quota of producing a new book nearly every year has resulted in some cringe-making efforts that attest to what the author himself has called a tendency to think smaller, "more spiteful and timorous thoughts" in recent years.

Maurice, less timorous and more ironical than his friend, may feel the same way when he sees her lounging in her velour track suit, stuffing her face with junk food, but his approach is different.