Sentence examples for was timidly from inspiring English sources

The sexually assertive woman was timidly validated, but she was still in a daze.

Arguably the greatest painting in the session, it was timidly expected to sell for a minimum £600,000 plus charge.

Mr. Woodham-Smith, who is showing an 1825 Empire table from the Skottorp Palace in Sweden, priced at $315,000, said that he was "timidly optimistic".

But the food -- even seemingly lusty preparations like shepherd's pie ($17), pork sausage with polenta ($15) and slow-braised beef shin with escarole ($18) -- was timidly seasoned.

A rental car was timidly approaching a roundabout that must have looked like a death spiral to Richard Williams during one of his first attempts at English driving rules.

The joke photograph in which he and his friend Paul Ree posed in a cart over which Lou Salome, the 21-year-old woman with whom he was timidly, desperately in love, held a whip.

These are timidly being introduced for large American managers, though only regulators will get a peek.

Too often, though, main courses were timidly seasoned and lacked identity.

McCorkle is supposedly dead, and his mighty works have been timidly brought forward by his unsophisticated sister.

It was five minutes to curtain time, and here we all were, timidly shuffling forward as the long line slowly snaked into the theater.

For the last decade I've been timidly evading my duty as both a Republican and a citizen by hiding in a foxhole till the whole thing blows over.