Rather than a shy boy, DeMarco in fact seems remarkable for his self-possession.
Boys like confident and smart ones rather than a shy one.
He set to work, confident, funny, and instantly got heckled, a heckle that was followed by a collective audience intake of breath, for the heckler was Daniel Kitson, a rather shy, whimsical young comedian from Yorkshire who looks like a beardy cross between a fisherman and a geography teacher.
Alison Powell, a rather shy African-American woman who has been a regular performer in Trecartin's videos since they were both undergraduates at the Rhode Island School of Design, lives in a separate apartment below the office space.
This for a young man who is still a little self-conscious, because Bale remains, deep down, a rather shy young man.
Its publication in December 1933 saw Schulz – a shy, rather awkward schoolteacher – join Stanislaw Witkiewicz and Witold Gombrowicz in the front rank of Polish modernists.
But all the time there are competing claims on her heart from back home, particularly from Jim Farrell, a shy, rather conservative and well‑brought-up boy played by Domhnall Gleeson.
Vidal himself never made any secret of his political ambitions, and still says that, brought up by a politician grandfather in Washington DC, he 'wanted very much to be a politician', the first of many dualities in his life: a shy, rather aloof man subjecting himself to the madness of political crowds.
"No," says Kieron, rather abruptly for such a shy boy, "but I like it a little bit".
