Sentence examples for timid design from inspiring English sources

The result is a more timid design than one might expect from an architect like Peter Eisenman.

With Baum and Denslow assuming printing costs, it was one of the most lavishly illustrated American children's books of the 20th century, and its bold color work revolutionized the field, which had long suffered from timid design.

"What's important about Tony Duquette is the exuberance he brought to a world filled with the glorification of timid design," said the decorator Jeffrey Bilhuber, no stranger to fabulousness himself.

Makers hope the designs will add luster to marques grown dull during an era of timid design.

These designs, timid or bold, decorative or structural, engendered the prototypes of commercial buildings for the ensuing decades.

The notion that you need both a violent wing and a moderate one to bring about social change is the truly timid, "centrist" argument, designed to appease all the forces on "your" side rather than confront the facts about what works and what does not.

Margaret Helfand, the 2001 president of the American Institute of Architects, considered the designs too timid, saying they bore only a fragile connection to the rest of the site, the neighborhood and city.

Health care unions are heavy campaign contributors, and they spend lots of money on commercials designed to scare timid politicians.

Like carefully conservative new operas in period settings, tunelessly modernist to retain the composer's "serious" credentials yet seemingly designed to appeal to timid middle-class audiences unwilling to accept the harder stuff.

Michael Pavelka's design and Matthew Wright's costumes are timid.

Homer is given entirely free rein in the design, but is at first too timid to voice an opinion, as Herb's designers begin to design the car with their own ideas in mind.