Christians -- and Catholics in particular -- seem to be a favorite topic for sarcasm from the timorous New York Times atheists-in-residence and the last politically acceptable target for those who enjoy ridiculing a group of which they are not a part.
But the bill timorously aims at part-time "downsizing," not closing, lightly used post offices.
At the same time he changed its political stance from timorous appeasement to strident Anti-Fascism, expressed in the lapidary language that was to become the tabloid trademark.
A class of politicians seems to have been up to no good for a long period of time, and to have assumed that the timorous French justice system would never act.
More often, they have seemed cowed and timorous in the face of Republican discipline, and have over time themselves moved increasingly rightward; their recapture of Congress has so far appeared to have emboldened them only modestly.
At times, the BBC seems not just responsible but timid, even timorous.
The boys are described as "two lobes of the same brain": Gregory is physically brave and a smart aleck, while Brian is timorous but cleverer, figuring things out before Gregory does, just in the nick of time.
The Massachusetts Democrat responded with a question of his own: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" None of the I-respect-your-opinion razzmatazz being mouthed by more timorous politicians.
The original Captain Cook had a harder time finding the east coast of Australia than Alastair did locating the ball with the edge of his timorous bat, gone for seven, to be followed quickly by his equally shattered lieutenant Bell, and the man Michael Vaughan believes should have the vice-captaincy, the edgy Pietersen.
A rather shy, timorous professor rushed to his suburban railroad station early one morning without eating, only to find that he had 20 minutes before train time.
