Sentence examples for rather timid and from inspiring English sources
On Iraq, he affects not to have noticed that the "surge" in and around Baghdad is producing palpable successes, and clings to the idea, beloved of his party base, that all troops should be withdrawn even before he putatively takes office.There is something rather timid and unhopeful about all this.
Adders are not usually aggressive, tending to be rather timid and biting only when cornered or alarmed.
In the conclusion of my 2003 book on this subject I was rather timid and suggested that the "old-fashioned terminology of passions and affections" was unlikely to "find favour in future psychological theories" (Dixon, 2003, p. 245).
Try to recognize your child's attempts to be social, even if they are rather timid and short-lived at first.
I am a small and rather timid woman, averse to conflict and hesitant to make waves.
That was what disconcerted me when I met him - I expected a fearless Bat out of Hell, and found, I thought, a rather timid soul, full of worries and grumbles and actorish concerns about his 'image'image
Trollope's speculations about other technological developments in the world of 1980 are sparse and rather timid.
This leaves the National United Front, which won most of the seats in last year's rather timid attempt at elections, and whose members the British authorities were seriously coaching in the arts of government, with only one seat, although it got nearly a third of the total votes cast.
There already was a Compass, the "softest" Jeep and a rather timid production version of a clever, nautically flavoured concept car from a decade ago, and there was – indeed still is – also the Patriot, which is squarer-cut but mechanically almost identical to the Compass.
The economy is still in shambles and the rather timid Obama administration has done little to address the immediate needs of the nation.
Only a rather timid rendition of flourless chocolate cake and a very ordinary zabaglione fall into the standard sweets category.
