Sentence examples for unusually shy from inspiring English sources

FOR a fast rising power, China remains unusually shy about military deployment beyond its shores.

She was unusually shy as a girl, but eventually she realized that her anxiety was not just inconvenient but indefensible.

Pakenham is unusually shy and well mannered for a curmudgeon, and his accounts of unpleasantness make several references to "guff" and one mention of a "MAJOR ISSUE".

An unusually shy 4-year-old daughter, Paige, has begun to flower in recent weeks, and a 6-year-old son, Gary, has suddenly grasped the fundamentals of reading.

The mutant mice had normal activity levels and coordination, but when the researchers put mutant mice in an enclosure with a mouse that had been restrained in a small cage, they were unusually shy, spending less time sniffing and interacting with the caged mouse than did normal mice.

Behavioral inhibition can be defined as a temperament characteristic referring to the tendency to be unusually shy and to respond with fearfulness and withdrawal in new and unfamiliar social and non-social situations [ 1].

The candidates are unusually publicity shy.

Real estate agents — perhaps hesitant to provide people with another excuse not to buy — became unusually press-shy when asked about the subject.

The reigning Ballon d'Or winner has been strongly linked with a move after enduring an unusually goal-shy run which has seen him fail to score in nine of his last 13 appearances for club and country.

Why was "Gravity", starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in a tale about stranded astronauts, one of this year's hits despite the misgivings of its studio, Warner Bros, whereas "The Lone Ranger" was such a flop, despite Disney's high hopes for a film starring Johnny Depp?"Hollywood is always in crisis," jokes an unusually publicity-shy talent agent.

Shy children are unusually susceptible to being described by others; the content hiding inside the shyness is often disgust with how one hears oneself described.