Sentence examples for retiring personality from inspiring English sources

Even though he decided not to run for the House of Representatives again, Dick Armey hardly has a retiring personality.

Once he moved to Hollywood as a director in MGM's stable, Minnelli quickly built a reputation as a fearsome perfectionist, despite his passive, retiring personality.

Gibbs's retiring personality and intense focus on his work limited his accessibility to students.

Mrs. Low added: "She was not a retiring personality".

Despite his imposing height, he was generally a retiring personality, though when it came to discussing matters he genuinely cared about – design, culture, politics or social justice – he would become animated.

And for those with a more retiring personality, there are numerous opportunities in development and support engineering or in the essential administrative functions such as procurement and finance.

He was a much-loved, if eccentric personality: retiring, unworldly and hopelessly impractical.

Even after retiring, he coaxed operatic personalities like Marilyn Horne and Beverly Sills to speak at fund-raising luncheons for Opera Pacific.

Smith showed another aspect of his personality by abruptly retiring at just 28 as one of the top rushers in the N.F.L., leaving tens of millions of dollars in earning potential on the table.

Matt Bai argued that Richard Ben Cramer's book about the 1988 campaign, "What It Takes," hadn't been equaled since because politicians, increasingly leery of journalists, had closed the backstage doors (or simply retired their backstage personalities entirely).

Although he cultivated a flamboyant stage personality, Mercury was shy and retiring when not performing, particularly around people he did not know well, and granted very few interviews.