Sentence examples for shy temperament from inspiring English sources

Though you wouldn't know it to look at me, I was born with a shy temperament.

A sumptuous retrospective of paintings and collages at the Acquavella Galleries catches the drift of a fine, shy temperament.

Burchfield was a family man of shy temperament who passed his life in small towns in Ohio and western New York.

Given recent results with young children in which a clear connection between shy temperament and "theory of mind" skills has been demonstrated [5], we might expect bonobos to have better social-cognitive skills than chimpanzees.

With their more cautious temperament [3], [17], social tolerance [4], [18], [19] and passive coping style [20] bonobos are more likely to outperform chimpanzees in theory of mind tasks, mirroring the positive relationship between shy temperament and theory of mind performance in young children [5].

No faction could have been less congenial to Lichtenstein's shy, punctilious temperament.

Walter loses his composure only once, and even then Mr. Jenkins keeps the outburst within the boundaries of his shy, professorial temperament.

I was probably shy, by temperament, from the day I was born.

Children with a shy or introverted temperament are too often seen by teachers as well as parents as at a disadvantage, or even worse as withholding or impaired.

Just as we have anti-depressants today to elevate mood, tomorrow we can expect a kind of Botox for the brain to smooth out wrinkled temperaments, to turn shy people into extroverts, or to bestow a sense of humor on a born grouch.

Even if you are born with inhibited temperament, as a successfully shy person, there are many things you can do to control your shyness instead of your shyness controlling you.