Sentence examples for timid man from inspiring English sources
He called Burga a "gentle, meek, timid man".
"The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people," Jefferson wrote, "and is a Tory by nature".
She enters into a relationship with a much nicer, far more timid man.
Like many a brave soldier before him, Weatherill was a rather timid man in civil situations.
A private, timid man who married late in life, Mahfouz is a strong believer, a bit of a mystic, and a Fabian socialist of the most passionate sort.
His father, Moritz, was a slight and timid man, a printer and bookbinder who was forced by finances to become a manufacturer of cardboard boxes.
And, when leaders are timid men incapable of initiating or responding, the spontaneous reaction is to use people to act out rituals.
The Nixon White House, addicts of toughness as only timid men can be, became inflamed with the desire for a "tough" solution.
Ask enough questions of the charmingly timid men in the shop and they might pull out folding chairs, offer you samples and make you boiling black tea with milk and sugar.
In 1951 it was reported that the BBC had turned her down as a stand-in television announcer for being "too sophisticated and severely beautiful... ...... and in case she "alarmed timid men from Wigan and country districts".
Privateers could hardly be called timid men, but it was only human to wish to avoid any suggestion of piracy, since pirates were hanged.
