Sentence examples for timid person from inspiring English sources
A timid person; a coward.
"It looks pretentious, although I'm not a timid person.
"I was a very shy little girl," she confirms, "and I'm naturally a timid person.
He had the vision, the instinctive grasp of physics, the ability to see "three-dimensional things", while Weber, who saw herself as a timid person, loth to give lectures, preferred her calculations.
In contrast to the astronomers, archaeologists and marine biologists who populate her fiction, she is not venturesome, regarding herself as a timid person, someone who is "hilariously afraid of bugs" and has suffered from altitude sickness.
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Private campaign commitments to contributors, a tendency to avoid having to resolve a conflict between two well-informed and opposing forces, ignorance of the views of inarticulate and timid persons, personal biases toward one's own peer group, unwillingness to disclose one's own mistakes, and sometimes more scurrilous motives — all these tempt an officeholder to be secretive and exclusionary.
And yet, although she's a lawyer who specializes in discrimination against women in the workplace, she's a timid, tentative person, never able to locate the "perfect client," even when that client turns out to be her own child.
Ada turns out to be a remarkably candid and down to earth woman, and beguilingly timid for a person in her line of work.
It tells them that the famous materfamilias of American experimental theatre is really a timid, fragile sort of person, and of course they want to please her.
