When I didn't put on my makeup, I would hide my head in shame and act timidly, but when I dressed up I would strut my stuff, smile, and hold my head high.
On the left, meanwhile, we feel our way towards a progressive alliance much more timidly, even when we know we're sunk without it.
They cheered--if somewhat timidly--when a year ago the United States answered China's missile tests in the Taiwan Strait by sending two aircraft-carrier battle groups near the area.Tensions in the region have eased fairly quickly since, as one Washington official put it, "both sides stared into the abyss".
When I timidly hummed a few bars of "Ode to Joy," two green, semitriangular blobs appeared.
"Whenever there is someone in a family who has long been ill, and hopelessly ill," he wrote, "there come painful moments when all timidly, secretly, at the bottom of their hearts long for his death".
When Laura timidly ventures out of that burrow, to make fleeting contact with the long-awaited gentleman caller, Jim (the excellent Mr. Smith), her worst instincts are confirmed, though only after an exquisite interlude of shimmering hopefulness.
I didn't much care for the Cape cover either, but when I timidly asked if I could see some alternatives I was told grandly that I could not, because that would delay the publication even further.
When I timidly told my OB-GYN of my symptoms: sleeplessness, anxiety and bouts of unexplained sadness, he casually suggested a glass of wine at night and gave me a prescription for Ambien.
A little gallows humor helps; when an associate timidly inquires about sandwiching Michael Chang's retirement ceremony between postponed matches, Mr. Kantarian doesn't flinch.
When Barcelona did timidly advance, looking for a way back into the game, Madrid counter-attacked with a pace and precision that was often astonishing.
