Sentence examples for timid on from inspiring English sources

It is so clanky and unpersuasive on the one hand and timid on the other that it does, in fact, feel more like the work of a recent academic-turned-playwright, someone like Porter Platt, than it does of the man who created him.

"He's been timid on that".

Last year, I was timid on the field.

The administration has been similarly timid on the banking crisis.

Gay activists complain that he has so far been too timid on both fronts.

Basel's study is timid on policy prescription, but it strengthens the case for standardization.

But Shamir's seemingly timid on-stage demeanour rapidly evaporates.

Most of them catch on, but timid ones feel they have to buy.

Mr Prodi's government cut public borrowing and improved tax collection, but proved too timid to take on the vested interests that always resist change.

Yet trade unionists, human-rights activists and harder-core Islamists all accuse the country's politicians of being too timid to take on the palace by tackling corruption or pressing for needed reforms.

Even if the wusses at the World Meteorological Organization are too timid to take on this new practice, it's something that the rest of us can do.