The old prejudice that women play timid chess was again exploded in the Women's World Championship, which ended Dec. 20 in Moscow.
In the John Hughes-inspired video for her last single What's It Gonna Be? – a sweetly earnest ode to romantic insecurity, wrapped up in effervescent synthpop – Shura and her real-life twin Nick play timid high-school students.
"I didn't really know what he did," says Lee Tergesen, who played timid alcoholic family man turned psychotic lover boy Tobias Beecher.
We last saw them in the writer's 2011 offering The God Complex, with David Walliams playing the timid Gibbis.
It was introduced by Bob Hope, playing the timid dentist Painless Potter, who sang it to a rootin'-tootin' Jane Russell.
A shy dog tends to be uninterested in play, timid, cautious and evasive in unfamiliar situations.
Mr. Lemmon almost always played the timid, neurotic schnook to Mr. Matthau's tricky whirlwind.
In the latter film Carrey played a timid bank clerk who becomes a hip wisecracking green-faced dandy when he dons a magical mask.
Todd Louiso plays a timid, mega-geeky music aficionado with an almost monastic devotion to obscure rock bands, while Jack Black plays a pudgy, acid-tongued social misfit with an encyclopedic knowledge of rock's dimly lit undergrowth.
In "Peepshow," created by the Broadway director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell ("Legally Blonde"), Ms. Madison plays the timid Bo Peep, who is led to a sexual awakening by the Peep Diva.
