Sentence examples similar to timid expression from inspiring English sources

We even have cute or cryptic graffiti on some walks, timid marks of citizen expression that isn't about to find a space in other more conventional media.

Not everyone was complimentary about Bishop and his verses: "the character of Bishop's countenance is not very intellectual, and there is a timid, and almost mean expression about the mouth.

Nor timid.

He was timid, shy.

"Timorous" means timid, but why not just say "timid"?

I was very timid.

That sounds too timid.

Yet bosses remain timid.

Nana had been timid.

Too easily she went timid.

They were timid; not threatening.