Sentence examples for timid version from inspiring English sources

This should create a real opportunity for the new Labour leader to develop a more confident story about wealth creation, rather than a timid version of the Tory story.

It is suspicious of the SNP's rather timid version of independence, always being described as being about "the full powers of the parliament" – which is hardly a language or outlook for transformational change.

Its addictive corn chips keep coming; its salsa is the real thing, not a timid Americanized version; peppy Mexican music and the smell of cooking onions fill the air and the pitchers of fruity, red sangria can fill eight glasses.

There already was a Compass, the "softest" Jeep and a rather timid production version of a clever, nautically flavoured concept car from a decade ago, and there was – indeed still is – also the Patriot, which is squarer-cut but mechanically almost identical to the Compass.

So they are timid, and timidity encourages incrementalism like "inventing" a variant on slots, or a slightly turned-around version of bingo.

The picture he tries to paint of Obama is that of the cartoon version of Jimmy Carter recessive, defeatist, and timid.

A surprisingly robust version of what is normally the most timid of soups.

They do a four-abreast walk through a Paris mall, a badass all-black version of Sex and the City, intimidating timid shop assistants with their all-too-candid intention to shoplift.

"The other people, they looked timid, they look shy in appearing before reporters — they only gave their version to certain very selective, biased media," Mr. Ho said.

The White House has been signaling that it prefers many elements of a Republican version that passed in the House, despite Democratic objections that it was too timid a response to a crisis in investor confidence.

In Hawks's version, Hildy (Rosalind Russell) is a woman who has fled the barbarous city desk and plans to marry a timid businessman (Ralph Bellamy).