Stewart repeatedly contrasted the Obama's heady campaign trail rhetoric, of hope, change and audacity, with what he called the timidity of his legislative programme. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
I had been a great favorite with this teacher, but she was so disgusted with my stupidity, as she called my timidity, that she said. From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
What she called timidity, and what I am sure she longed to call stupidity, was the silence of overawed admiration, or mixed curiosity and discretion. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 10] Reference
He seems to have fallen into the same deep despondency as his brethren, and to be shrinking with nervous timidity from a difficult, if not desperate, cause. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Field was anything but a timid man, he had been in too many tight places in his life to know the meaning of the word timidity, but then he had to exercise a certain discretion. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
You call him rational; I am beginning to call it timidity. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Overpromising] Reference
9 The palm of timidity is disputed by the Kashees, or natives of. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
And if we use it now and then, we do so almost with a certain timidity. From Wordnik.com. [Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The Independent Institute's Ivan Eland says the timidity is the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Consortiumnews.com] Reference
In short, his timidity was a revenue to rogues, and his humanity to honest men. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
It does not, as most Jargon does, come of laziness; but it comes of timidity, which is worse. From Wordnik.com. [V. Interlude: On Jargon] Reference
In a family where high courage was the rule her timidity was a by-word; she would turn pale at the least word of anger. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty Wesley] Reference
I always stay away from that street in any of its manifestations out of sheer timidity, which is probably why I got it wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Transferring Is Easions] Reference
The first step in overcoming timidity is to learn to realize when you’re guilty of it, and to immediately take corrective measures. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On Timidity] Reference
The detachment is, I hope, free from danger, and my caution on this point has been so far as to be called timidity by every seaman I have consulted. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette] Reference
He felt his quality; understood his courage in some directions and what Thea called his timidity in others, his unspent and miraculously preserved youthfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
“Whatever learning Miss Trevanion possesses,” interrupted Sir Charles, “is veiled, you surely will admit, by a diffident and engaging timidity, which is most rare.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
I presume that my timidity was a valuable asset at this time; for I was afraid to force matters in any way, and time and repeated attempts finally overcame our difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference
Arianna asserts Obama has shown "timidity" in governing. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Romm: One Year After His Election, Obama On Verge of Audaciously Fulfilling His Promise as the Green FDR] Reference
Thus, given this kind of timidity, hard questions need to be asked. From Wordnik.com. [A Missed Opportunity: Human Rights in Asia] Reference
Now I had another kind of timidity to conquer: the absurd and the unnecessary one in the face of girls. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
And we can't do it with the kind of timidity and tentativeness that some in the Congress have expressed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2002] Reference
HARRIS-LACEWELL: Well, I mean, it has happened for some folks, but I think there's a kind of timidity around race. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2008] Reference
He will preserve thee from the timidity which is fraught with moral peril. From Wordnik.com. [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference
Oh, I get so tired of this kind of timidity, this playing hide-and-seek with people!. From Wordnik.com. [Our Unitarian Gospel] Reference
We look forward with a kind of timidity to meeting, and fear there may be some restraint in it. From Wordnik.com. [Deerbrook] Reference
HPFacebookVoteV2. init (343822, 'The Patience to Govern', 'What Arianna calls timidity, I call patience. From Wordnik.com. [Dylan Loewe: The Patience to Govern] Reference
We think that all such objections savour of a timidity which is really inconsistent with a firm and well-instructed faith. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
He turned to her, the exaltation gradually dying out of his face, and at last he stooped and kissed her with a kind of timidity unlike him. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
What Arianna calls timidity, I call patience. From Wordnik.com. [Dylan Loewe: The Patience to Govern] Reference
The kind of timidity that’s kept us not just in the back seat but in the trunk and shrinking. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Schumer: DSCC Won’t Commit Unconditional Support for CT-Sen Nominee] Reference
"timidity" in its dealings with the country as it grappled with its worst financial crisis in a decade. From Wordnik.com. [News]
Minister, has slammed the EU for displaying "timidity" in its dealings with the country as it grappled with its worst decade. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Don't blame the traders] Reference
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