My wife's a teacher and I have long berated her for her timidity in using IT in the classroom. |
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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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Democrats' timidity also makes it easier for the Republicans to co-opt their modest ideas, from prescription drugs to homeland security. |
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His development over the next few weeks was a study in boldness and timidity. |
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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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His biographers bring his timidity into a yet stronger light by pointing out that his courage failed him in the presence of infectious disease. |
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Curiously enough, women seldom show any signs of timidity or shockability on the battlefield. |
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All the timidity this engenders, all this watching your mouth has started to feel positively un-American. |
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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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Lack of charisma, timidity and humility seem to be the criteria that negate strong leadership qualities. |
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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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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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Modesty suggests shunning indecent behavior but it also implies bashfulness based on timidity. |
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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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Now GM, its stockholders, dealers, workers, indeed, the entire nation, are paying the price of this timidity. |
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There were those who lagged behind out of incomprehension, political calculation, or timidity. |
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God delivers us from timidity and fear with the promise of power and constant presence. |
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The Quebec federation of dairy producers is hardly enthused by the minister's timidity. |
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The timidity of professional associations is the main reason for their declining influence. |
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When it came, however, the announcement left many disappointed by its timidity. |
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That must not be allowed to happen, and there must be no more timidity from the Council in this matter. |
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But the problem of dissent, and timidity in the face of dissent, is broader than the Jesuits. |
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All too often, governments show caution, timidity and even negligence in implementing language rights. |
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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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One involves grandees of left and right stampeding to embrace gay marriage, after years of timidity and hesitation. |
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And surely that is not because timidity, indifference or clichéd Lithuanian submissiveness are part of our national identity. |
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They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt. |
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The young girl's natural timidity was not helped by the fact that she was sent to La Bruyère, a rather strict convent school for girls. |
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For Jalili and his allies, however, this war was the defining moment and victory was surrendered by the timidity of the clergy. |
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She contrasted its timidity with a bellicose anti-Hagel salvo from the Christian-right group Concerned Women for America. |
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Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence. |
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His old timidity has completely left, as he speaks without fear. |
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God, in fact, has not given us a spirit of timidity, but one of power, of love and of wisdom. |
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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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Some agency staff are critical of a perceived timidity from their senior management and would like to see more forthright reference to violations in the dialogue with governments. |
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And throughout the series, from David Warner's unfortunate – and retracted – comments about seeing fear in Jonathan Trott's eyes, the vocabulary of timidity and cowardice has been the dominant motif of England's defeat. |
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However, facial expression and body carriage may reveal feelings of sadness, lack of confidence, timidity, confusion, discouragement or justunder-the surface anger. |
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We beg forgiveness for our timidity in returning your divine creation. |
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The Algerian Government passed the test victorious in spite of its isolation and timidity, I would even say faintheartedness, for which European aid is chiefly to blame. |
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The ambitiousness of Bush's agenda and the comparative timidity of Clinton's is partly a product of political style — a willingness to take risks versus a deep reluctance to. |
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Recent history is full of tragic examples, from Kigali to Srebrenica, of defenceless civilian populations paying the ultimate price for the timidity and overscrupulousness of international troops. |
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Atheistically, Egyptian films are still lacking, governed by a certain timidity passed on by our long history of commercial formulas. |
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I frequently send them to the nearby carpentry shop to ask questions so as to break down their sense of inferiority, their inbred timidity in front of adults in the outside world. |
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Perhaps this timidity stems from the intense scrutiny of their widely held shares, making them leery about paying too much for foreign acquisitions. |
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I thought that the Commission was somewhat timid in what they said about that, but alas, Parliament argues yet further timidity and talks down all the references in the White Paper to regional involvement with the Commission. |
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Our colleagues deplore the current Commission's timidity, and consider that it is not playing its role of suggesting strategy and of providing policy leadership. |
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As well as helping students to reduce their bullying, anger, or timidity, programs should capitalize on their strengths, enabling them to develop a healthy self-concept and appropriate interpersonal skills. |
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The challenges which Europe faces today stem as much from developments outside its borders as they do from the EU's timidity in responding to them. |
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When funds instead position themselves more conservatively and short stocks, the markets promptly rally on the merest whiff of better news. An unaccustomed timidity has seized many hedge funds. |
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The notion in its pure form continues to provoke suspicion and timidity. |
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An education with patience and early socialization will reduce the trends facing the strange timidity One of the smallest dogs in the world, this affectionate breed is always ready to please. |
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Every character, from the boisterous blasphemings of Bajazet to the shrinking timidity of womanhood, must play the orator. |
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Although he had displayed political courage all his life, in his last years he gave way to physical timidity and hypochondria. |
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On the other hand, men born in cold countries are, indeed, ready to meet the shock of arms with great courage and without timidity. |
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When twilight came I had vaguely wished some clouds would gather, for an odd timidity about the deep skyey voids above had crept into my soul. |
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Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. |
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That is because Scotland has a SNP Parliament and Government without the timidity of the visionless Labour Party in Wales. |
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The Government needs to exuviate timidity and hesitancy from its transportation policy development by acknowledging the primacy of its national interests. |
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Indolence and timidity have united to popularise among us a flaccid latitudinarianism, which thinks itself a benign tolerance for the opinions of others. |
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Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt. |
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Terrified by his words, and conscious of my own timidity and cowardice, I gave up my journey and attempted to apply whatever gift I had in defense of my faith. |
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