Sentence examples for seems timid from inspiring English sources

The house-cured gravlax seems timid.

For all that, though, he also seems timid and tentative.

Further to this, the current policy approach to encouraging energy efficiency in buildings seems timid.

For against it, the contemporary British novel, with a few, scattered exceptions, suddenly seems timid, bogus, and footling.

His concentration on automobiles produced some bold compositions that nevertheless seems timid, especially compared to what has gone before.

The seller bought the painting at its last auction appearance, at Sotheby's New York in May 1997, for $8.7 million, a figure that seems timid in retrospect, although widely deemed high at the time.

They seemed timid and outdated even before the attack.

Ms. Greig, by contrast, seemed timid, drawn and older than her years.

Sometimes it seemed timid to her; she chafed against its limits.

Collins on Wednesday did not dispute a reporter's characterization that Tejada seemed timid.

The shifting lighting schemes atop the Empire State Building seem timid compared with this chameleon.