Sentence examples for timid son from inspiring English sources
The father was the disciplinarian, grumbling that his wife spoiled their bright, if timid, son, who continued to sit on her lap until enrolling at Cairo University.
Dyer Martin, in crisis after a disastrous foray into real estate, has taken a position in the history department; one of his pupils, James, is the timid son of the formidable headmaster, once tenured at Harvard and now determined to shake up the conservative and complacent privilege of his new domain.
—Rebecca Mead For me, the best book of 2015 was Kent Russell's essay collection "I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son," an amalgamation of reported pieces and interstitial vignettes that form a skewering, breath-catching, wildly smart evocation of contemporary masculinity.
As many and varied as these films are, it is the "Up" films that have set the unbroken rhythm, punctuating not just their 14 subjects' lives but the private life and prolific career of this once timid son of a London insurance man turned expat Hollywood workhorse who seems to have little thought of slowing down, despite his contention that "ageism is a bit of an issue" in the industry.
Tristan's novel is unsentimental about the lives of the immigrant Jews, "the shapeless dresses and mild charms of their homely, aspiring daughters and the pinched mouths of their bitter wives, about the way their timid sons push their spectacles up the bridges of their sweaty noses and doggedly pursue elusive New World manhood".
The hotel is a dilapidated mansion run by the timid Indian son of an overbearing mother who refuses to countenance her son's affair with a gorgeous girl from a local call centre.
Abandoning gruff but profound male camaraderie, McCarthy instead sounds the limits of imaginable love and despair between a diligent father and his timid young son, "each other's world entire".
"I was a shy and timid boy at primary school, but mixing with all these sons of army officers meant I became confident and pushed myself".
He died soon afterward, being succeeded by his timid and ascetic son, Charles Emmanuel IV.
Observing and absorbing Laura's distress is her timid, fiercely clinging young son, Richie Jack Rovelloo).
There are some fine supporting performances, particularly from the wonderful Bobby Steggert (as Bick and Leslie's timid rebel of a son) and Natalie Cortez (as his love interest).
