Sentence examples for timid for the from inspiring English sources

The budget was far too timid for the free-marketeers.

We are too dull and timid for the magic and the flesh.

When one of our credit traders deemed my new analyst to be too timid for the trading floor, he took it upon himself to toughen the kid up.

Other winners are the pappardelle with truffled ricotta, roasted mushrooms, and fennel salad ($16) served with an impressive light brown toasted crispness to the top layer, and the not-for-the-timid charceuterie board, presented on a wood block with four high quality meats and grooves in the wood designed to perfectly cradle the bread and condiment offerings.

One theory is that creative writing is often the chosen profession of the control freak too timid for politics, with the result that if you can't control the real world you must completely control your imaginary one.

A1 German Assailed on Economy Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany put forth what critics called a timid agenda for the next four years in a coalition agreement his party signed with its partner, the Green Party.

The timid opt for the canvas tote; the committed spring for the leather satchel.

At the same time they have grown more timid for fear of offending the "social consensus, however dumb or even vicious the consensus".

However, the Sotheby's estimate of $70,000 to $90,000 estimate, too timid for a historic imperial heirloom, suggested that the experts had their doubts about the period of the piece.

Capello's belief that Gerrard was too timid for captaincy was another of the Italian's misjudgements.

Well-intentioned but philosophically timid, "For My Father" wants to meditate on the moral reshuffling that can accompany imminent death.