Sentence examples for slightly shy from inspiring English sources

The overall impression is that of a kindly, slightly shy older man who is eager to please.

A very rich, slightly shy, faintly simian Welsh footballer.

There is a neat, girlish, slightly shy signature.

Muneera Shakir is younger, perhaps forty, with black hair, oval eyes, and a slightly shy smile.

On the contrary, Sterling was polite, slightly shy and there was no edge whatsoever.

Ms. McQuillan, like Sandra Bullock, exudes an appealing combination of slightly shy but game for anything.

I'm slightly shying away from the poppier audience," he says.

The market was slightly more shy on the second bite, especially as the rumoured price had shot up to £18 per share.

Its slightly less shy producer is Barry Bennett, a supporter of Texas Governor Rick Perry, who says he is only trying to help: "I wanted people to see what the Democrats are going to do [to] this guy".

Tom Vilsack, the governor of Iowa, is in many ways a Midwestern equivalent of the senator from Massachusetts: tall and slightly awkward, shy and sometimes distant, a reluctant glad-hander.

The subsample participating in individual interviews were only slightly less shy and less active than the focus group sample.