Sentence examples for their timidity from inspiring English sources

Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal.

The staff members get over their timidity once they realize how safe and secure Sofo is.

But for at least six months now, there have been signs that their timidity is disappearing.

If the sisters hesitated, the bishops mocked their timidity, scorned their selfishness and threatened heavenly retribution.

The court's decision demonstrates how their timidity is being used against them.

Their timidity about the poem made no difference to the dispute, which would last for more than ninety years.

Anyone who left their Christmas party early, disgusted by their own timidity and drunkenness, suffering perhaps from love's "delirious lassitude of fever", and who resolved over the new year to give up smoking, make a new start, maybe go travelling and live life to the full, will identify with the torments of Oates's woman with no name.

I believe their newfound timidity may have something to do with the fact that their positions are so transparently indefensible and that the public can see right through them.

To do that, Democrats will have to overcome their natural timidity.

In this, the politicians display not only their own timidity but also the mood of many voters.

The mythbusters are women who dared to do what they wanted and ignored those who said they couldn't or overcame their own timidity.