Sentence examples for timid performance from inspiring English sources

First, why wasn't any of this wit evident in his disconnected, oddly timid performance in "Lincoln," for which he had just won the best actor award?

To some and particularly his party's combative liberal base, Mr. Biden's aggressiveness might have appeared both appropriate and overdue given Mr. Obama's more timid performance last week.

Scholes' dissection of the Belgian's contribution was underlined in a timid performance that was hardly the offering of a near-£30m player.

Back in Houston, there was a bit of rivalrous grumbling among some astronauts about what they called a timid performance, but Armstrong had the support of the cautious operational men on the ground.

An unusually profligate final over from Lasith Malinga gave New Zealand a win in the tournament opener, and it then needed an extremely timid performance from Zimbabwe's batsmen to ensure that Kumar Sangakkara's side weren't bounced out thanks to Duckworth-Lewis.

The eurozone's timid performance may fuel calls for the European Central Bank to act to inject more life into the euro bloc.

His timid performances in parliament do not help either.Like his mother, therefore, he may aspire to a more detached sort of political role: guiding the Congress party, and so influencing government from outside.

Puck helps her, by advising her to picture the other members in their underwear, which she does in her timid-turned-confident performance.

Their performance against Wigan, slow, timid and predictable, did little do dispel the doubts and West Ham will back a defence which has kept 13 clean sheets this season to frustrate an Arsenal attack which desperately needed refreshing in January.

And yet Everton rarely put up a derby performance as wretched and timid as this one offered up by United in that winless sequence.

Having little experience with live performance, the duo was timid about committing to a tour.