Peirce looks what she isn't – a timid figure.
As Lensky, Onegin's friend, Vladimir Malakhov, his line as eloquent as ever, offered a deep Byronic dimension on Friday, as he did with the Stuttgart in 1998, while on Saturday, Ethan Stiefel cut a younger, even timid figure, always ennobled by his outstanding elegance and special energy.
In "A Heart So White," he is an intelligently curious but somewhat timid figure, overshadowed -- in his own mind and, he fears, everyone else's -- by his powerful, seductive father, a man named Ranz who deals in valuable artworks and has a forger for a best friend.
Odette enters as a timid, shadowy figure who is immediately marked down by Swann "not without beauty... but... a kind of beauty that left him indifferent, that aroused no desire, even caused him a sort of... repulsion".
Singh's quiet intellectualism renders him a timid public figure.
When the narrator first encounters him, in the mythic landscapes of Combray, he cuts a pathetic figure, "timid and sad".
The seller bought the painting at its last auction appearance, at Sotheby's New York in May 1997, for $8.7 million, a figure that seems timid in retrospect, although widely deemed high at the time.
The four central characters consist of the timid, kindly Mole (the Everyman figure who the reader is encouraged to identify with, and who was at least a partial representation of Grahame himself), the pompous but well-meaning Ratty, the grim but fair Badger and, of course, the irrepressible Mr Toad.
Two days later, in a statement many secular figures deemed too timid, Samir Dilou, a government spokesman and a member of Ennahda, reiterated the party's view that the film was "a violation of the sacred".
"Justin Quayle, then, is an allegorical figure, an emblem of timid virtue roused to heroic action by the discovery of his own complicity with evil".
John Daszac's Grimes, at first a timid giant, grew into a baleful figure, full of an awful frustration - at himself and life - quite terrible to witness.
