Sentence examples for with timidity from inspiring English sources

Often profound behavioral changes occur, as temper and irritability alternate with timidity and withdrawal signs.

Lazlo takes him, and his arrival is met with timidity and terror.

When Fiona, his wife of forty-five years, must move into a nursing home, Grant initially approaches his wife's transformation with "timidity, humility, alarm".

Had Teacher Fei not known his age, he would have guessed him to be more than sixty; his hair was more gray than black, and his back was stooped with timidity.

It's extraordinary to me that so many self-styled readers of poetry continue to confound tact with timidity, style with stolidity, purity of diction with prettification and maybe even petrification.

Its central character is Nancy, an overweight 55-year-old woman whose lifelong battle with timidity and depression has been galvanized into crisis by the loss of her secretarial job.

Harold approaches her at first with agonized timidity and then with a bit more boldness, showing up at her bakery with an assortment of flours.

It's ironic that only a week after interloper Ricky Gervais shook up the American film industry with some ego-pricking home truths at the Globes, Bafta still behaves with such timidity and small-mindedness when it comes to celebrating its own.

"Can I start again?" she asks with feigned timidity.

The performers sling their Simonesque zingers with polite timidity (2 00).

"It would be a hellish thing to live with such timidity.