Sentence examples for timorous and from inspiring English sources

Maybe confusion from above has made players timorous and rash.

They all appeared timorous and awkward, still unused to their status as armed men.

England are too often timorous and afraid to put their own stamp on a match.

Belligerent, wounded, proud, timorous, and entitled a man given to gaslighting and dissembling under pressure.

Acting in a timorous and tentative way is the worst of all ways".

They predicted that that effort could backfire by making Mr. Davis look both timorous and calculating.

Nevertheless, at the first council which the young Dionysius held with his friends, Dion discoursed so well of the present state of affairs that he made all the rest appear in their politics but children, and in their votes rather slaves than counsellors, who timorously and disingenuously advised what would please the young man, rather than what would advance his interest.

His life was a mess, his last novel had been crapped on from a great height by all the shitbags in London, he doubted he would ever write anything of lasting value, and yet — with those strings climbing timorously and the brass clearing its throat as if to make some great statement that was never, finally, made — there were still transcendent moments to be had in this poor existence of ours.

Most of all because of the perception that the new England have lost its fire, have rebelled against their better nature and become timorous, calculating and weak.

New discs with images up to three feet in diameter, in changing combinations of red, blue and green, are by FrançoisChalet and by the firms Timorous Beasties and Tado.

Timorous, paunchy, and pale, with a sad mustache and a pair of rimless glasses, David Colin Farrelll) checks into a rural hotel.