She was tall for her age, and shy, perhaps sensing his grandmother's disapproval of her family, which lived down the street in a house without plumbing, just a pump on the porch.
Alexei's quite shy in a sense; if he doesn't know you, he doesn't open up immediately.
The hedge fund industry is notoriously media shy and Common Sense has managed to stay out of the news for more than two decades since it was founded.
His peer on welfare, Iain Duncan Smith, has explained that making limitless payments to the work-shy makes no sense.
Within two days of Paterson's subversive experiment with common sense, that shy beast was frightened back down its burrow and usual service resumed.
At the centre of the clan are four grown-up siblings who are thrown together again when one of them, Sarah, moves back home to their parents' house, complete with rebellious daughter, painfully shy son, and wry sense of humour.
It made sense to shy away from policy, but it is still curious to leave out Walter Lippmann, who occupied the upper left spot on the Post's op-ed page for three decades, especially when Marquis Childs and the Alsop brothers, Stewart and Joe, are well represented.
Most sane pundits would have the good sense to shy away from a subject as polarizing as the controversy between pro-life and pro-choice.
They're not a couple, one senses, to shy away from stating bald truths.
