Sentence examples for timorous life from inspiring English sources

"Mother Tongue," McEwan's attempt to understand his mother's "timorous" life, was published in October, 2001, when she was succumbing to dementia.

Suddenly, the timorous teach is filled with new life by day and vengeance by night.

Timorous Beasties put a subversive spin on the 17th century rustic scenes to illustrate today's city life in all its glorious debauchery.

The explorations we make with him into the seeming dark, very like our own cave-riddled limestone landscape, although timorous at first, become explorations we find ourselves queuing up to make because of the revelations and affirmations of life that appear at journey's end.

French writers were not as timorous.

Today the movies seem more timorous.

The timorous might think twice before embarking.

But European boards are not timorous.

The long list of betrayers, carpers and timorous publishers includes Robert Gottlieb, Peter Mayer, John le Carré, Sonny Mehta, the Independent (evidently the "house journal for British Islam"), Germaine Greer, John Berger and assorted policemen "who believed he had done nothing of value in his life".

But they also draw more timorous fans.

She seemed fixed in rosy and timorous youth.