Sentence examples similar to timid lot from inspiring English sources

"These were not a timid subservient pro-government lot," Mr. Hasan said.

Because if you were wrong about Neutrino, you might have to acknowledge that your own life is a lot more timid and boring than you want to think.

Instead, we get a lot of timid, sticker-shocking clothes — Zandra Rhodes's junked-up ball gowns look mostly messy and cramped, paint or no paint — jammed into narrow spaces.

"This will give cover to a lot of timid people, and there's nothing like cover in Washington," said Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee who long ago broke ranks with other members of his party to call for making the overall budget public.

"They could have been - and should have been - a lot less timid on the banks and insurance and energy companies," he said.

People who were pro-choice there were a lot more timid.

This will give a lot of timid Democrats in Congress the political cover to jump on board as well.

But there's every reason to think at least some of those Democrats would have been a lot more timid if they'd been up against a president whose agenda wasn't so wildly out of step with the public ― and whose own poll numbers weren't the weakest in modern history.

You know, in the 12 or so hours I've spent as a New York City resident, it strikes me that New Yorkers are very timid people who need lots of coddling.

She was timid, but so are a lot of women when they enter a gun store.

But a timid pup will need a lot of time and patience to foster their self-esteem and get them comfortable around others.