Sentence examples for timorous character from inspiring English sources

Sam Tarly, previously the most naive and timorous character on the show, finally manned up by not only killing a Wilding, but by protecting his woman, getting his first kiss, and showing way more courage and wisdom than we ever could've expected.

This enabled him to live to the advanced age of 51 before succeeding to the purple, and it was his own character, timorous certainly, but quick-witted and surprisingly firm in emergencies, that enabled him to survive 13 years as emperor and so to become, in the words Graves gives him, the recorder of his own life and times.

The company had followed its established pay formula, shown its workings and pleaded its case to normally timorous fund managers.

The female character in the story is described as "timorous".

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The third season of "Game of Thrones" showed the beginnings of a bold new side to a character we'd only known as meek and timorous.

The sad thing is that, from the opening shot of a guttering flame, "Albert Nobbs" prefers to take its cue — timorous, subdued, and reluctant to risk a smile — from the title character.

The roast beef of Olde England was character-building food, stout fare for stouthearted men, while it was widely presumed that a vegetable diet made men weak, timorous, and effeminate.

French writers were not as timorous.

Today the movies seem more timorous.

The timorous might think twice before embarking.