Sentence examples for timid affair from inspiring English sources

Last July Mr Jaitley's stopgap budget was a timid affair.

It's a tepid, timid affair, sexually, dramatically and politically.

The parade began as a tiny and timid affair in 1970 to commemorate the anniversary of an uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, and has evolved into an enormous, electric dance party in the streets, thundering yesterday from 52nd Street to the Village.

The Bank of England press conferences are usually fairly timid affairs, but as it is one of his last, he could want to go out on a high.

The government, smarting under the humiliation suffered at the hands of Austria, was as timid in foreign affairs as it was oppressive in domestic matters.

'It's their Haiti.' The pattern will persist in international affairs until countries become less timid about speaking up about human rights abuses and atrocities in their own neighbourhoods and show a willingness to act to resolve them.

To my mind, AM subscribers come across as faux-sexual libertines – too wussy, miserly and/or timid to either have a proper, full-blown affair or hire a sex worker.

Thus, during this last little bit of American history, the president has become too powerful in foreign affairs, and Congress has been too timid to reassert its authority--for example, in reclaiming its power to declare war.

Taj has experimented with this approach but has been timid, and Orient-Express is still an old-school affair.

In "Revolutionary Road," mid-century American suburban man is so maddening because he is both a rank escapist and a conservative pragmatist: he has arrogated to himself twin rights that ought to be incompatible — to dream of escape (and have adulterous affairs, like Emma Bovary), while simultaneously dreaming of timid stability, like Charles Bovary.

From his timid, indistinct mother, up to and including his one great love affair in postwar Italy, he seems to regard them with a kind of queasy helplessness, as one after another potential companion slips through his fingers.