Sentence examples for shy characters from inspiring English sources

They're more sort of bookish and shy characters.

Shy characters are not born protagonists; they are too passive to propel stories along.

Writing shy characters is notoriously tricky, but the award-winning Eimear McBride specialises in damaged ones, such as the young, Irish-girl-in-London narrator of The Lesser Bohemians, her followup to A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.

It is easy to imagine Brown and Eastwood, two less than shy characters, slugging it out over the green baize but for both of them now is a time to focus on Southend's meeting with Crewe Alexandra in Sunday's Johnstone's Paint Trophy final, the first time the League Two club will have participated in a showpiece occasion at the national stadium.

His painfully shy character Tyler gets a love interest and Amy's mission finds an audience.

Barkley is a genuinely reserved, shy character but a fierce determination to maximise his immense potential shines through nonetheless.

He was a shy character who did little talking off the field, but on it he led by example and where he went others followed.

I felt as though she'd created a very sassy (but evidently shy) character in Lara which wasn't reflected in much of her narration.

The movie showcases Queen Latifah's aptness with physical comedy and explores a shy character that in many ways is the opposite of her larger than life persona.

The pugnacious, sardonic and seemingly super-confident character Meades plays in his documentaries, which he began making in 1990, is not the real Jonathan Meades, who is an altogether more diffident and shy character in reality (except when drunk).

Tonight there might be an imaginative gap between the confidently confrontational voice in the song and the shy character on stage (to wit: there is no sashaying), but this is still a quiet triumph.