(Oddly, this never resulted in liberals portraying Nancy Pelosi as a congenitally timid right-wing enabler).
He is timid in the right moments, curious in others, and always preoccupied with what is going on inside the mind of his interviewee.
With nothing left to lose, Mr. Gingrich said today that the N.R.A. had actually been "too timid" on gun rights.
He said the party was "too timid in enforcing rights and responsibilities, especially at the top, and it was too sanguine about the consequences of the rampant free markets".
A real black man is not timid about making the right decisions, that's what I meant.
At a recent get-together in a Prussian palace, the cabinet found enough common ground to produce 12 pages of promises, but even the best are only timid steps in the right direction.
In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.
The Special One could only respond with a timid wave of his right hand and afterwards held his hands up and admitted he had been out-thought.
Will every individual have to be a tight-lipped, right-thinking, timid, dutiful, obedient, queue-forming clone to escape the censure of the unblinking eye now being opened by the state upon us?
A former victim of torture herself, Rousseff has a clean, if at times timid, record on human rights.
Maybe they are right to be timid.
