In time, they timidly make their way into the world, which turns out to be crueler than most of us would, I suspect, like to believe.
In 1956 the Yankees, not exactly an affirmative action employer, were ever so timidly making their first accommodations to a more diverse sports world.
By David Denby The New Yorker, October 4, 1999 P. 117 THE CURRENT CINEMA review of "Three Kings" and "Mumford"... ..Three Kings" deserts moral investigation for a conventional movie fable... Every once in a while, I see a film so timidly conceived and tepidly made that I am astonished that it exists at all — that it doesn't just slip off the screen and hide under a seat somewhere.
By David Denby The New Yorker, October 4, 1999 P. 115 THE CURRENT CINEMA review of "Three Kings" and "Mumford"... ..Three Kings" deserts moral investigation for a conventional movie fable... Every once in a while, I see a film so timidly conceived and tepidly made that I am astonished that it exists at all — that it doesn't just slip off the screen and hide under a seat somewhere.
Abramović's ex-husband, Paolo Canevari, who had, I was told, flown to New York from Europe to witness the finale, and had been watching discreetly, or perhaps timidly, from the sidelines, at last made his presence known, and was overheard whispering an endearment to her in Italian.
That is a journey he never made successfully, in fact on many occasions timidly and miserably, in his time at Everton.
Not long ago, the speaker's timidly reformist proclivities, cleric's gown and good links with the conservatives made him the ideal person to broker deals between the two camps.
United, with two first-half goals in 10 games, tend to begin too timidly, which serves to make the closing stages more fraught affairs.
Sitting in a cafe in front of the train station, a thick orange scarf wrapped around his neck, a Syrian tailor watches people timidly as his son makes castles out of sugar cubes.
And "Ashley" addresses the opposite problem, with Big Sean timidly accepting his role in the dissolution of something that had once been beautiful: "Sorry for when you had to cry yourself to sleep/Tried to count on me and I made you count sheep".
