If you appear stiff, reserved, timid and insecure, they will feel repulsed. |
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He was just pouring himself another cup of coffee when there was a timid knock on the door. |
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We were timid children, and the world we inhabited was too harsh, too angry with itself, but too scared to push the button. |
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But he was an extremely timid man and all he did was to stay by her side and prevent her from going out. |
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Zidane, and those close to him, claim that he rarely speaks because he is a naturally timid and modest person. |
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Eventually they managed to track down frozen varieties of fish, which were fed to the timid bird in a bowl of salted water. |
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His answer spilled timid and trembling from his frightened lips, a trickle of stuttering feebleness. |
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The plot just requires him to be a meek, timid guy next door who believes in following the rules. |
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Once inside, things simply got worse for any shy, timid souls who plucked up the courage and made it past the front door. |
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Yet he is a keen sighted and extraordinary man, gentle I think by nature and at once timid, modest and reticent. |
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As in all sensitive and generous souls, people born into this sign can seem rather meek and timid. |
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The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted. |
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The party that once bestrode British politics like a colossus has arrived on the Lancashire coast in timid, uncertain mood. |
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On a timid, tremulous performance of REM's Everybody Hurts, she sounds like a reticent schoolgirl suddenly asked to perform at Live Aid. |
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The two timid trysters head off to the seashore to find an appropriate way to express their unspoken love. |
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There were timid deer and huge morocoys that moved with prehistoric slow motion. |
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The Warren brothers snickered, amused by the sight of their strict teacher suddenly turned into a timid mouse. |
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Hanks' fatal miscasting and timid performance unbalances a film that is already too careful to thrill. |
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The timid knock on the door could only be one person, his mousy but efficient secretary trying to get his attention. |
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The dozen or so timid beasts looped about uncaring of the darkness that dominated the planet. |
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Skeletons do not have any brakes or suspension and with top speeds exceeding 80 mph, this is not a sport for the timid. |
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At first I was a little timid because the car has quite a bit of power, tons of grip with the underbody and the wings. |
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From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid. |
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Like the cry of a pack of sleuth-hounds in the ear of the timid deer came these stern demands to Edward the king. |
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Marines engaging in their first combative exercise were often timid and unsure of themselves. |
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The play is about a timid nerd who discovers a strange plant that can make any Joe Soap really famous. |
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He is too timid and vacillating about his own faith to offer an untrammeled affirmation of it. |
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It is very hard to be a Vajrayana practitioner with a timid, chicken-hearted attitude toward life. |
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Outside their window, an insect's timid squeak peeped sporadically into the night, like a half-rusty hinge. |
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Even the fiercest Rottwieler or the stand-offish German Shepherd becomes as timid as a doe when Murugan takes them by the leash. |
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The women screamed in unison all eager to be the object of Joe's attention if only for a second, but all too timid to volunteer. |
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They are weak, fractured, incoherent and ideologically timid to the point of catatonia. |
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In fact, fans of gangsta rap or heavy metal are often more timid and shy than other kids, he says. |
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He makes timid steps back towards the tower and sees two orcs shot by their companions in the courtyard. |
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At Trinity College, Cambridge, he associated with the evangelical group led by Isaac Milner, being studious and earnest, modest and timid. |
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Prosecutors are either too timid or outgunned by the platoons of pricey defense lawyers. |
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And in the summer the otherwise icy Baltic Sea warms up nicely to allow even the most timid to have a paddle. |
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A buzz of protest swarmed across his men, each too timid to shout over the others. |
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She'd been so timid that she had been frightened of the very dancing partners that the patronesses of Almack's had chosen for her. |
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This deal will confirm the perception that Senators are clubby, timid, and self-congratulatory. |
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But he's a timid child, fearful of water, heights, spiders, darkness and the great outdoors. |
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A Nietzschean may see it as a lie with which the feeble and timid console themselves for their inability to seize life as it should be seized. |
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This infelicitous parental combination had produced a timid, nervous son whose prognosis for healthy adulthood was poor. |
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It's simple to get close to animals like scrawled filefish and spiny puffers which prove too timid to approach in the daytime. |
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The man of sanguine temperament builds high hopes where the timid despair, and the irresolute are lost in doubt. |
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Her timid reminders concerning the flight of time and consequent fines for lateness at work fell on deaf ears. |
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Robbie Johnson had cornered a timid young lecturer and was educating him about the nature of the real world outside the ivory tower. |
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Why is the government so timid about embryo research given the potential rewards? |
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The State continues to tolerate the barbaric treatment of timid animals in live hare coursing which was recently outlawed in the North. |
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The true Way to the Knowledge of the Source is not the timid and footling way of the Student, but the Divine Foolery of the Hacker. |
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Others fear the creation of soulless cyborgs that make Orwellian predictions look timid. |
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I thought Kent had become timid after Kareem decked him with one punch during his rookie year. |
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Worsham is excited about the adventure, though curiously a bit timid about the prospect of standing in the box to face thrown projectiles. |
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The wife of the first son is demure and timid, but the wife of the second son answers back to the cousin. |
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What terrible tragedies have been enacted over the centuries in this battle between the weak and timid Fly and the cruel and bloodthirsty Spider! |
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He has become timid at both ends of the court, and his playing time has been cut. |
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Occasionally, it's very good, but a lot of it, like this, is banal in concept, timid in presentation and ephemerally unmemorable. |
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One of the best levels in the game has a timid scientist driving a dune buggy while you man the rear-mounted machine gun. |
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This dish is not for the timid eater, so bring along a doggie bag for the leftovers. |
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Some of them are able and competent, but the representative type is timid, cringy and conservative. |
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Wilfred could barely stand to see Jane's sparkling eyes and timid laughter wasted on that wretched English hag and her abominable beverages. |
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The timid male would be advised to stand well back when a female threatened is on the rampage. |
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I have always thought that Edinburgh, while grand in design, was timid in vision. |
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She began to lose her sight five years ago, causing her to become timid, irritable and even attack animal keepers on occasion. |
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Despite such incursions splitting the Hibs rearguard, some of the attempts were timid and those that were not were met by the reassuring Colgan. |
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For the more timid these large keyholes will appear between waist and hip level at the side waist on fitted dresses and fitted tops. |
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The hammerheads of Cocos are timid, but a diver using a closed-circuit rebreather can get close to these sharks, often gathered in numbers. |
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As a lover, his story stands out forever as a warning to the timid and the recreant. |
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The closest you can get to fishing with a natural bait for these timid tench is with the humble maggot and redworm. |
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. |
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That's just a timid bureaucrat trying to unload a problem that got dumped in his lap. |
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Her erstwhile colleagues in Cabinet report that Ms Short was never timid about ventilating her opinions. |
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The parties could put forward nominees, but it would be up to the commission to weed out the worthless lickspittles and the timid timeservers. |
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Linneans are encouraged to take a deep breath, remember that these snakes are harmless and timid, and contact me right away. |
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We just seem to be in this fearful, timid phase in our political development. |
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I've gone from being shy and timid, to being quietly confident and assured. |
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When the darkness closed around her Ayala lost all nerve and took to flight with a timid yelp. |
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The man he sits on scuttles away, so timid to be sat on first thing in the morning. |
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At the start of the six-week course, the women are timid and self-conscious. |
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Just going by a vaguely detected linguistic tic, I think this particular leader was written by the Guardian's timid political editor. |
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She had thought the timid beings would be fearful of undertaking such a journey. |
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That said, I really hated this film, and not because it's so dumb, but because it's so timid and gutless. |
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Too timid to risk present comforts, they never muster the spine to acquire or risk their own capital. |
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Sheep are generally timid and tend to flock together, although they do not compete for rank. |
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He took on a confident stance and started to advise the younger, more timid worker. |
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She has a tremendous amount of data but seems timid about really analyzing most of it. |
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At first, I was kind of timid, but now I may as well use it to my advantage. |
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I creep forward, mostly on my hands and feet, timid and afraid that he, too, might pull a gun on me. |
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Geraghty's professors are by and large men timid in scholarship, locked into mindless routines and shy to the point of cold rudeness in personal dealings. |
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But his timid foray into critical thinking brings swift and severe punishment. |
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Luke had become an introverted, timid, and overly cautious lover. |
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As for all the timid, mealy-mouthed incrementalists, Porter has only contempt for that kind of thinking. |
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But after meeting her, it is clear that yi is not the timid girl from the film. |
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The Bonnethead shark is a small, common, timid hammerhead shark. |
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He is the answer to the prayers of those tongue-tied guys, the romantically handicapped, the timid ones whose words are not in consonance with their feelings. |
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Simon Russell Beale's Cassius is not so much the scheming Machiavellian, but a timid, bullied character, more resentful than envious of those who hold office. |
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Studies with monkeys, for example, suggest that timid monkeys live longer. |
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Most of them are still in prison, and even the most timid signs of dissidence are relentlessly snuffed out. |
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All thoughts of being quiet and timid were erased as I spotted the crimson stains on the pot of the plant where someone had obviously pushed it down the stairs. |
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Since he has chosen, for his scenographic debut, to take a stab at Francesca Zambello's worst production, no one will criticize him, except perhaps for having been too timid. |
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The Iraqis need the American presence, and the American training and air cover, but are too proud and timid to admit it. |
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How did that survive the vetting at this often timid and antiseptic White House? |
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Until we are allowed a vote on the decisions of the WTO and its confederate organisations, however, bricks hurled through windows remains all too timid a response. |
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While evidence continues to mount that humans are heating the globe, the world's nations squabble over a complex fix too timid to solve the problem. |
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In a timid voice, Jonah inquired if there were not lifeboats or life rings or other flotation devices that might be thrown off the boat with whomever was first to go. |
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Afterward, the company became timid and slow, almost afraid to compete for fear of arousing more scrutiny. |
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Sandra shifted her feet nervously and displayed a weak, but timid, smile. |
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Even now, some clinicians are unforgivably timid around the topic with their geriatric patients. |
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The terrified and timid, wobbling slowly across everyone's path, are completely oblivious to the rules of the road or the mild chaos they caused to other riders. |
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Even the most timid and shaky of the puppies looks determined and confident in slo-mo. |
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With very few exceptions the patriots of this country are all timid adventurers led by ambitious intriguers, avid speculators who never dared to take up arms in our favour. |
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It was a big change, she was less timid now that she had to fight to get the choice piece of meat she had cooked and make her way around the ship. |
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A timid knock sounded, followed by a couple of bold raps on the door. |
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It did not gain that influence by producing timid and fearful programmes. |
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The hallucinatory imagery of Afal Drwg Adda naysays the channel's timid trend since the programming zenith that was Con Passionate. |
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He burned his fingers in the stock market and has been timid about investing ever since. |
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A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap. |
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Late August 1793, an army general had been guillotined on the accusation of choosing too timid strategies on the battlefield. |
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There are actually some preachers who are timid about urging people to give a good revival love offering. |
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Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in her later years added to this impression. |
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She was obsessively timid outside the family circle to the point of turning her back on her partners in conversation without saying a word. |
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But an ailing James proved far too timid and melancholy to inspire his followers. |
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Adders are not usually aggressive, tending to be rather timid and biting only when cornered or alarmed. |
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In the English language, to call someone a sheep or ovine may allude that they are timid and easily led. |
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Rochelle is a perfectionistic, timid, dutiful girl, and she has been slaving away for hours on her math. |
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Wussification means that the kids are being turned into wussies, which means weak and timid. |
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There was nothing timid about the way he cockily rolled the ball onto his right foot before rocketing a glorious shot past Szczesny. |
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Grass snakes are non-venomous timid creatures that live in ponds, swamps and rivers, living off eating amphibians, such as toads and frogs. |
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He's not plotting revenge against his enemies as he huddles in his condo, he's just a timid, little kitty cat waiting for someone to choose him. |
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This leads the community to retrench and become risk averse, which invites complaints by politicians that the community is fecklessly timid. |
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The last fight was timid on both of their behalves and it didn't fight like it should've done. |
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And when I did my first paintings they were really van Doesburg look-alikes, and I felt very timid about showing them. |
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This group was an assortment of political conservatives, timid Orleanist liberals, and functionalist and organicist Saint-Simonians. |
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The other varieties would include both the flamboyant dunker and the timid one who tries to dunk on the sly. |
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Could the timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure? |
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Charles Busch's screwball comedy about a timid gay electrologist who inherits a fortune. |
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For motorists too timid to tell cops to buzz off, Don Ramsell has a product for you. |
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To return once again to that small-mindedness is simply rather crass and timid. |
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With a timid, loutish movement the great beast turned aside, then lumbered off followed by the calf. The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away. |
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But I am not so timid, and can speak the Queen's English plainly. |
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The rebellion was crippled by early detection and timid leadership. |
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The poetlings around him were timid, crude, experimental, but Sackville writes like a young and inexperienced master perhaps, yet always like a master. |
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But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush. He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell. |
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Despite a few timid attempts to emulate this literature in English, it can be argued that few writers seem to connect with either the landscape or the literary tradition. |
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The problem is not that we cremate our dead, but how ritually denatured, spiritually vacant, religiously timid, and impoverished we have allowed the practice to become. |
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The timid, tepid, type explanation of how easy the new Oreos package is to open and close may work with new customers but is often not enough to do more than confuse old ones. |
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They marched on Hereford and were opposed by a force led by the Earl of Hereford, Ralph the Timid. |
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