Sentence examples for some timidity from inspiring English sources

No because the kitchen shows some timidity about salt and seasoning.

The nature of the Tory offer reflects the constraints of circumstance and genuine long-term ambitions, as well as some timidity.

In each case the satire is wrapped in an overall gentleness, perhaps out of some lingering timidity regarding the subject matter.

After some early timidity over the use of American force, the Clinton Administration adopted a muscular posture internationally, redefining "vital national interest" to include humanitarian crises in world hot spots that posed no security threat to the United States.

Some of the timidity in Europe is explicable: its generous welfare states have more "automatic stabilisers", such as payouts to unemployed workers, to support economies in recessions than hard-hearted America does.

Again they meekly look to the cabinet to lead a coup.A time to cullThese different instances of collective timidity have some common explanations.

That timidity by some of the brightest and most articulate men and women in the nation exemplifies my conclusion that American colleges have superb faculties, wonderful students, beautiful and well-wired campuses but weak-kneed, pussy-footing presidents.

This morning some species showed no such timidity.

Skipping the debate, especially if he does not win the South Carolina primary, could have been seized on by his rivals as a sign of timidity — an argument some of them were already preparing to make.

Some worry that his niceness signifies timidity.

Meanwhile, some liberal commentators slammed Obama for timidity, including, precisely, not mentioning cap-and-trade.