Sentence examples for timid child from inspiring English sources

As a timid child, she amazed herself one time by instinctively standing up for a girl in the class who was being bullied.

He was, he says, "a very shy, timid child" — not one even he could foresee barking orders to a crew of 900 as he directed his 1999 James Bond film, "The World Is Not Enough".

A timid child who tiptoed around his brooding father (as described in the third volume, Boyhood Island), he grew into a cripplingly self-conscious teenager, and then, by his own reckoning, an adult who is seldom happy in the company of others.

At the end of last season Tommy's unloving father died as well, and it isn't too long before he is turning up in Tommy's vodka-induced visions, Tommy's hold on sobriety as shaky as a timid child's on horseback.

A shy and generally timid child, I was pretty invisible.

But her now deadly (yet still maternal) character started out as a timid child bending to the whims of her overbearing brother before growing into a military maven.

And we, the self-styled adventurers, the voluntary exiles, are the ones who receive the 2 A.M. phone calls, who jump trembling onto planes and walk like timid children into the arrival zone, where our brother is always waiting to pick us up.

Dave Tim Robbinss), who walks with the shuffling, stoop-shouldered gait of a timid, overgrown child, has a son of his own and a skittish, devoted wife named Celeste Marcia Gay Hardenn).

I had always been timid as a child but when I sat down to write I gathered a sense of strength, courage and clarity that I didn't know I was capable of.

As indicated earlier, some fearful, timid, socially withdrawn children inherit a temperamental predisposition to develop this form of behaviour; other children, however, acquire it as a result of a stressful upbringing, experiences, or social circumstances.

In recent years we've been a bit timid about exposing children to demanding mathematical ideas, fearing they won't understand.