I was too self-conscious to enjoy it, though, too timid, and it stymied me that I couldn't speak the language.
Mostly, though, "Himmatwala" feels timid and overeager.
Though naturally timid, he was a constant and intrepid traveler, exploring Italy, Greece, Albania, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, and, later, India and Ceylon [now Sri Lanka].
The Sarband approach is elegant, though not timid in its wresting of Bach's music from its Western moorings, but Vladimir Ivanoff, the group's director and arranger, has an unfailing instinct for finding musical ground where his transformations seem natural.
For all that, though, he also seems timid and tentative.
Though I was timid when I first approached them, they were eager to be filmed.
Timid though Mr Maduro's reforms have been, some leftist factions accuse him of betraying Chávez's socialist legacy.
The girls' stories had much in common, though Renuka was timid and softspoken, while Malar was defiant and angry.
Oddly, quietly, they support another theme of Frady's story: that King was essentially a creature of circumstance, pressed into shape by events, often timid though also brave in a self-dramatizing way.
Queens refused to be timid, though, and Derek Lyle equalised with a free header as the hosts continued to battle throughout an absorbing game.
