Maybe it's a defiant cry from a writer who has accused his younger self of being bashful, diffident and very, very repressed.
After reuniting with Flowers at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival in England, Wainwright said of their encounter that Flowers was "very flattered" and "somewhat bashful".
One of them was one of our officers (he was a young new reserve that I didn't know very well, so I forget his name. He seemed pretty bashful on the ship).
He takes the late Gloriana's skull and coats its lips with poison, passing these grim remains off to the Duke (who must have been very short-sighted) as a country lady who is a little bashful.
We love you!" Being bashful sorts, we normally blush and try and run away very quickly, but sometimes they corner us, ready to douse us with praise, to leave us sodden with adoration.
"Tiffany has always been a very special person, very confident, very driven, always the hardest worker and not bashful about it," Ivanka, 34, said in a phone interview.
One of his school friends was the less bashful Donald Trump, although Brant says that at that time, Donald was "a very conservative kid" who took after the low-key senior Trump.
