How To Use Timidity In A Sentence
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He has not been hampered by timidity or uncertainty, fitting into the side with calm assurance and revealing the extent of his ability.
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If from timidity they consent to be forced into one of these moulds, and to let all that part of themselves which cannot expand under the pressure remain unexpanded, society will be little the better for their genius.
On Liberty
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That spiritual confidence and authority available to the average believer was confirmed in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, where I learned that boldness comes from the original Greek word, parrhesia, meaning "outspokenness; unreserved utterance; freedom of speech; with frankness, candor, careful courage; and the opposite of cowardice, timidity or fear.
Larry Ross: Oral Roberts Showed Us the Way to the Throne
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today. one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn.
Matthew Yglesias » Ruffini: Kristol, Brooks, and Will Not Conservative Enough
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They could have been bolder about giving Southern artists a bigger share of the spotlight, but even in their timidity, they have showcased enough top-drawer Southern culture to satisfy the most demanding esthete.
The Arts Games
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Timidity is evident in the way most companies are spending the bulk of their money.
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The one thing that Labour has been entirely consistent about is its pettifogging parliamentarism, its proceduralism, its gradualism and its timidity before capital and the Establishment.
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In each the larger animal keeps a contemptuous good humour; in each the smaller annoys him with wasp-like impudence, certain of practical immunity; in each we shall find a double life producing double characters, and an excursive and noisy heroism combined with a fair amount of practical timidity.
Memories and Portraits
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Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
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_Si, si, si_!" is the simultaneous answer of assent, Calderon alone seeming to give it with reluctance; though he hesitates from timidity, not mercy.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
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The timidity of the boy afraid to fight, a common object of scorn for schoolyard bullies, was recast as a clinical pathology.
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Humanist psychology's caution about change can add to egalitarian feminist psychology's existing theoretical timidity.
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Timidity solicits that mercy which pride is most gratified to grant; the blushes of juvenile shame atone for the deficiencies which cause them; and aukwardness itself, in the unfounded terrors of youth, is perhaps more interesting than grace.
Camilla
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.
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By reserve we do not mean bashfulness or timidity.
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If you are enslaved by laziness, irresolution, wavering, negative behaviors and timidity, luck will abandon you. Dr T.P.Chia
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In an age governed by regulation and timidity, where originality is all too often swamped by political correctness, this building will stand as a triumph of individuality.
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But what you call his vulgarity, my dears, is just everyday life; and everyday life is always disgusting to the funny little Bayswaterats, who are compact of timidity and pudibonderie.
Nights in London
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Parents were much less likely than were professionals to assign responsibility for their boys' timidity to themselves.
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To the world at large It'seemed a glaring example of miscalculation, confusion, timidity, and muddle.
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This is why timidity is often praised as "good manners' when really it is to the disadvantage of the shy person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
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He was soon disillusioned by the government's timidity on social reform.
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She really had a maiden beauty, mildness and timidity.
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A much - trailed financial overhaul is a curious mix of audacity and timidity.
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Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity.
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Then there came the voices of the two children calling shyly outside the door, softly, with self-excited timidity:
Women in Love
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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This is why timidity is often praised as "good manners' when really it is to the disadvantage of the shy person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Mental illness as agony, weakness, timidity, irresolution, nervousness and other bad habit can be corrected.
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During a prenomination interview, Barbara Walters, a woman not known for her own professional timidity, noted that Ferraro had missed weekends with her kids because of her political career and wondered why she’d kept her maiden name.
Big Girls Don’t Cry
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A similar timidity seems to have characterized the administration's conduct of military operations during the occupation.
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Lack of charisma, timidity and humility seem to be the criteria that negate strong leadership qualities.
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Thou, my Alan, wilt treat as timidity this passive acquiescence, which has sunk down on me like a benumbing torpor; but if thou hast remembered by what visions my couch was haunted, and dost but think of the probability that I am in the vicinity, perhaps under the same roof with
Redgauntlet
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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If you are enslaved by laziness, irresolution, wavering, negative behaviors and timidity, luck will abandon you. Dr T.P.Chia
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The whole picture breathes timidity and refinement.
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Though this was done with an almost extraordinary timidity, I hailed it with happiness, as being the first word, voluntarily spoken, since the critical moment, when I had caught her unbarring the back door, to go out among those waiting brutes.
The House on the Borderland
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This is why timidity is often praised as "good manners' when really it is to the disadvantage of the shy person.
POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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Then you have widespread fear and ignorance, the inertia of these giant bureaucracies and the timidity of politicians.
Times, Sunday Times
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A politic caution, a guarded circumspection, a moral rather than a complexional timidity, were among the ruling principles of our forefathers in their most decided conduct.
Paras. 375-407
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I also remarked a singular timidity on his part lest somebody should "unsettle" somebody's faith, -- as if faith did not require exercise as much as any other living thing, and were not all the better for a shaking up now and then.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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Humanist psychology's caution about change can add to egalitarian feminist psychology's existing theoretical timidity.
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The least evidence of timidity would invite an overwhelming attack: a bold front and what may be called indomitable
The Life of Kit Carson
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She was no shy violet, but her lack of timidity only added to her attraction for him.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The least evidence of timidity would invite an overwhelming attack: a bold front and what may be called indomitable "cheek" were all that was likely to take them through.
The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A.
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He also attacks the 'precautionary principle', which distorts so much institutional behaviour and leads to fatuous overregulation and organisational timidity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then you have widespread fear and ignorance, the inertia of these giant bureaucracies and the timidity of politicians.
Times, Sunday Times
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She replied not without timidity, but without that hasty bashfulness which is so often taken for modesty.
Rudin
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He was uncomfortably aware that for all her youth and timidity and biddability, Juliana Wishart was also a person — probably a person with dreams of love and romance and happily-ever-afters.
Unforgiven
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Besides , you could hardly accuse Mr Obama of timidity.
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His development over the next few weeks was a study in boldness and timidity.
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate.
Ramsey Milholland
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That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance.
Sant' Ilario
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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More surprising, at least to those who presumed her well-aired feminist principles to have been a continual corrective to Blair's masonic/lubricious tendencies, Cherie Blair appears to have been equally impressed by displays of New Labour virility, twitting her husband on the contrast with his own probable timidity: "John's just a man.
What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?
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Timidity and maladdress do not retard perils by ignoring them.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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The most noticeable rhetorical development in this sequence is the profound infantilization of Stephen's represented speech and the repeated ascription of shyness, timidity, and silence to Stephen and his soul.
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But the wounded feelings and the timidity of Joan of France rendered her incapable of an effort to make the conversation more general; and at length, excepting a few interjectional civilities of the Lady
Quentin Durward
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The State Department, however, was meeting the Red menace with “basic timidity,” he complained to a friend, and Dean Acheson, who became its secretary in 1949, was a “pantywaist,” he told Jones.
Wild Bill Donovan
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The strict proprieties of time and place and my own timidity meant that I was only a day-tripper in this world, never a candidate for resident status.
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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My wife's a teacher and I have long berated her for her timidity in using IT in the classroom.
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On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude.
Half a Rogue
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They charged that the president had presided over “four years of indecision, tactlessness, timidity, and bluster.”
Eisenhower 1956
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This whole episode really does display the timidity of the mainstream media, more interested in striking deals with the political Establishment rather than interrogating and attacking it.
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Sheep remind people of such qualities as timidity, docility and gentleness in Chinese as well as Western culture.
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Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
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And there I had been, stammering and stuttering until I found my voice, until I finally showed her that I had a little bit of something in me - words that could be angry, something other than timidity or shyness.
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His old timidity has completely left, as he speaks without fear.
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Some whose natural endowments would, under less unpropitious circumstances, qualify them to reach the summit of fame, are fettered by want of patronage and pecuniary distress, while others are cramped in their efforts by a complexional sensibility which they cannot overcome, and checked in enterprise by diffidence and timidity, the natural offspring of a refined and delicate structure.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity.
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Sheep have a thick woolly coat, usually live in groups as flocks, and are known for their timidity.
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At a time when the press failed to check a reactionary Administration, when the opposition party all too often chose timidity, it was the lowly and anonymous bureaucrats, clad in rumpled suits, ID badges dangling from their necks, who, in their own quiet, behind-the-scenes way, took to the ramparts to defend the integrity of the American system of government.
Matthew Yglesias » Bureaucracy: Teh Awesome
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By this time He had discovered that his Neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, He was still unable to decide.
The Monk
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These attempts to extend the influence of what was called freethinking and philosophy, were carried on, as we have hinted, with a caution dictated by the timidity of the philosopher's disposition.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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But real health care reform of the kind that Democratic candidates were promising during last year's presidential campaign is dead, killed by the timidity of the promiser-in-chief, President Barack Obama (and by the massive corruption of the Democrats in Congress, who hav e accepted the tainted coin of the health care industry).
Say 'Good-bye' to the Nice Health Care Reform, Kids
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The leading was more careful of her strength, more respectful of her timidity, -- was more strictly _leading_ than _pushing_, -- that was all.
Say and Seal, Volume I
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And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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In the end, Wilson's timidity makes the book unsatisfying; but at least there's the sound of debate in its pages.
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Sir William Trumball [sic] whom Macaulay (chap. xxi) characterizes as “a learned civilian and an experienced diplomatist, of moderate opinions and of temper cautious to timidity” was appointed Secretary of State in 1691 and resigned in 1697 to make way for a more zealous partisan.
A Pleasing Form; a firm, yet cautious Mind
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Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
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But whimsy is not exactly a postmodern mode, and in Chronic City it betrays a certain aesthetic timidity.
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