Sentence examples for to be timorous from inspiring English sources

O.K., I thought; let's try it, I haven't come all this way to be timorous.

Nicholas Hytner, the National Theater's artistic-director-elect, stages the earlier encounters with an exuberance that suggests his regime won't be timorous.

The Postal Service's filing with the commission to try out Metro Post is timorous in tone and lists self-applied hobbles.

It's timorous to say, "If we leave them alone they'll leave us alone".

In England, where it took them four decades to win, India's cricketers were timorous, poorly paid and uncompetitive.

"Far from being timorous little mice waiting for the cat to come and eat us," he said, "we have been remarkable for acquisitions south of the border".

Instead, England were timorous and tentative as they started slowly with the bat and handed the initiative to the Dutch.

Initially, the SNP's aims in Govan were timorous.

Anne-Catherine Gillet's Micaela is timorous rather than morally strong, which might have been preferable here.

Fabrics and soft furnishings are timorous by nature but our designs which are rather 'out there' suit the word Beasties - especially as our early designs featured insects".

But Mr. Thornburgh's Justice is timorous; television news finds it all too complicated, and France's arms merchants have an investment that pulls them deeper into the pit.