Sentence examples for proved shy from inspiring English sources

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On it, she proved shy about flaunting her Juilliard School-honed violin chops; is she saving her virtuosity for the grimy, seductive walls of Knitting Factory?

Ultimately, local journalists proved shy about the issue, not daring to broach it at the ambassador's first news conference last month until he raised the issue himself.

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The current White House has also proven not shy about using the wartime nature of this presidency to its political advantage.

He added that there was little international pressure, with most western countries proving extremely shy on the subject.

This is probably the role that will seal it for Woodley, who, since first drawing praise in Alexander Payne's The Descendants, has proven a shy performer – helpless in the face of a direct compliment, those eyes wide like a deer, her lines readings always diminishing in volume, as if she's fading right in front of you.

Outside, in the office, people are watching the wires, making calls, writing cues and programme trails, talking guests through interviews, finding new guests when the first ones fail to show up, their phone line's down or not good enough, or when they prove too shy, upset or (occasionally) pissed to perform.

This guy has by no means proven camera shy thus far, so it's no real surprise – but hey, lets see you make a cell phone without anyone finding out about it.

Other horses prove too shy or too weak to enable him to confront the giant, therefore Svend obtains a Jutland horse from a passing miller, who claims that it is strong enough to carry fifteen skippund.

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And we cannot help but notice that Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, who receives a regular paycheck from CNN but often fails to disclose this fact to readers, has proven remarkably shy about wading into the controversy as well, leaving Post readers pretty much in the dark about what is otherwise considered to be a major story elsewhere.

And hey, if you're pretty sure that the guy likes you but he's proven too shy to ask for your number, what's stopping you from taking the initiative and asking for his digits?

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