Sentence examples for only a timid from inspiring English sources

It's a pity that only a timid dose of absurdity, and little wit, emerged.

The agency needs to "do more than just accelerate this problem by rubber stamping every next-generation satellite application that comes our way using yesterday's orbital debris rules," she wrote in a statement, and today's rulemaking proposal is "only a timid start".

Pope Pius XII offered only a timid plea for "charity" in the Chessman case, but even that was a breakthrough for Catholics, a "tentative step on the road to recovering the pastoral practice of St. Augustine, disapproving all executions, and especially those based on political motives," James Mcgivern wrote in his book on this subject.

(This is what Ayn Rand got wrong in "The Fountainhead": the ultimate romantic-colossal statement of romantic architectural colossalism could be built only by a timid corporate conformist; Howard Roark, like Frank Lloyd Wright, would have ended up with an automobile showroom and a smallish museum).

Only a rather timid rendition of flourless chocolate cake and a very ordinary zabaglione fall into the standard sweets category.

The Special One could only respond with a timid wave of his right hand and afterwards held his hands up and admitted he had been out-thought.

The biggest electronics show in the world is a difficult thing to report as it is with only a handful of timid bloggers, ripped from their natural habitat as it were, and placed in an unfamiliar environment.

This is no showcase of political freedom (it has a cautious press and a feudal ruler who has only lately agreed to a timid consultative assembly).

This thought brings to mind our first encounter of the evening, when he walked almost menacingly along the corridor only to announce himself with a timid, softly spoken greeting.

While her preparations had moderate success, she faced little competition, the only other treatments coming from a "timid little dentist", who was an inexperienced doctor sent by the Panamanian government, and the Roman Catholic Church.

But in offering only timid support for a public option and refusing to consider a single-payer programme (Medicare for all), Obama missed the opportunity to build a broadbased constituency for a new entitlement a central feature of the healthcare law.