Sentence examples for timorous about from inspiring English sources

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Protecting those interests has become a reflexive position of Republicans and one which Democrats are at best timorous about opposing.

So will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who have been too timorous about wielding their power.

Still, I do not see why the prime minister should be quite so timorous about saying clearly that Mr Diamond has to go.

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Well, I suggested timorously, how about having someone for whom English isn't a second language you, maybe go over it with a keen eye and a keener pencil?

She wrote an elegant and wrenching memoir about her metamorphosis from timorous housewife to gutsy mogul that won her a Pulitzer at 80.

Only a curmudgeonly reader would object to learning about "linkboys," candle-bearing escorts who accompanied timorous pedestrians around seventeenth-century London at night; or about "moon-men," who rode ahead of coaches or carriages holding a pole topped by a globular lantern.

Krystal writes, "Only a curmudgeonly reader would object to learning about 'linkboys,' candle-bearing escorts who accompanied timorous pedestrians around 17th-century London at night; or about 'moon-men,' who rode ahead of coaches and carriages holding a pole topped by a globular lantern".

I first visited Haworth more than 30 years ago as a freshly minted English major transfixed by such bold creations as Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester and Heathcliff, and by the timorous young women who had written so powerfully about female aspirations and subversive love.

Significantly, it was theatre, rather than our timorous TV networks or the arthritic medium of cinema, that articulated public disquiet about Blair's policy of "humane intervention".

As her language indicates, Dillard, who teaches history and politics at the Gallatin School at New York University, writes within the style current among younger, left-liberal humanities scholars -- a timorous style that often sacrifices verve to caution, advancing gingerly toward rather legalistic formulations about human reality.

On Tuesday night, the economist of the Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato, wondered, in the course of a brilliant inaugural lecture in a Labour-backed series of talks to fire up a conversation about the state and the economy, what food was necessary to turn timorous business folk from gerbils into lions.

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