Sentence examples for of a timid from inspiring English sources

That is not the response of a timid woman sitting in the corner.

'What kind of a timid, dried-up, weevily fellow were you?' I say to myself.

The music, by Michael Nyman, is rabble-rousing stuff; its crescendos make Rossini's look like those of a timid beginner.

It didn't prevent the appearance of a timid salad of bibb lettuce, hearts of palm and fennel.

"Dad's prayers were not the quiet, whispered entreaties of a timid Sunday school teacher," Mr. Ashcroft wrote.

He is no fan of a timid or shrinking government; he uses the word "expand" 80 times, often in conjunction with programs.

This, he argued, was in conflict with the "conservative attitude" which was a "fear of change, a timid distrust of the new as such".

F.A. Hayek wrote that individual freedom is unpredictable and the "conservative attitude" is defined as "fear of change, a timid distrust of the new as such".

Instead, it has confined itself to a timid extension of "people-to-people" contacts with Cuba.

If you're that fussed about smoking just nick a 'rollie' off of a timid-looking student type as they're always up for giving away their disgusting hampers of dried-out tobacco and their foul, execrable liquorice papers.

The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday.