Sentence examples similar to timid attitude from inspiring English sources

It is the perfect antidote to a timid, reverent and excessively archaeological attitude to Greek literature.

Konoe was an intelligent and sensitive child, but he tended to be nervous and timid; and he developed a cynical attitude toward society.

F.A. Hayek wrote that individual freedom is unpredictable and the "conservative attitude" is defined as "fear of change, a timid distrust of the new as such".

This, he argued, was in conflict with the "conservative attitude" which was a "fear of change, a timid distrust of the new as such".

Alternately timid and aggressive, solemn, hormonal, posturing, helpless, Houellebecq tosses stones through the windows of European polite speech and attitudes, then runs away.

Nor timid.

He was timid, shy.

That sounds too timid.

I was very timid.

Yet bosses remain timid.

Nana had been timid.