Hayek warned that conservatives, however, "are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rates to whatever appeals to the more timid mind".
You have met a foe in combat: perhaps a timid mind that doubts, -- "can I do it" -- perhaps a body that aches with a cut to the right and a lunge to the left, perhaps a self image that says: "I once looked sleeker in such short and revealing clothes".
The poem ends with Giraud's beauty conquering any fears that Byron may have about their relationship: But thou, Giraud, whose beauty would unlock The gates of prejudice, and bid me mock The sober fears that timid minds endure, Whose ardent passions women only cure, Receive this faithful tribute to thy charms, Not vowed alone, but paid too in thy arms.
If Mr. Bradley did write this, he is a timid conventional mind who has, by reviving the hoary cliché of the "values" college professional sports supposedly teach, demonstrated why he was so eminently qualified to serve in that talking shop, the U. S. Senate.
"I am sick of the timid spiteful servant mind," she wrote of Nellie Boxall, her cook for eighteen years.
After one of many rows with a cook, Nellie Boxall, Woolf described her in her diary as a "mongrel" with a "timid spiteful servant mind".
Whether the Miami Heat was building its gaudy lead or watching it turn into a puddle, Mourning's shots were short, his moves were timid and his mind seemed whipped by the figure before him.
Adverbs, like the passive voice, seem to have been created with the timid writer in mind...
Introverts are quick to point out that they're not the same thing and those with the personality type are not timid or afraid to speak their minds.
Madeleine M. Nichols, curator of the dance collection, suggests that timid new users keep one thought in mind.
Tercek thinks that the nonprofit mind-set can be too timid.
