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Why are so few people scandalised by the timorous, seemingly complacent, way that the police behaved?
And we have become a surprisingly timorous nation because we don't ask our leaders, our politicians serious questions.
Even a timorous proposal to convert taxis from diesel to less-polluting petrol five years ago failed to win legislative support.
But the thinking behind it is consistent with the rather timorous, hands-off approach to recent conflicts.
He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd.
It has often been said that the Barcelona process was a partial failure, and it is true that we were timorous.
Three examples clearly demonstrate that the Council has taken a far more timorous position than the Commission or even the European Parliament.
It makes no sense to wear a helmet, if the helmet is too large or if, due to precautions of timorous mother, a cap may be worn below it.
On the contrary, if the style is too formal, this may cause a timorous respondent to close down even more.
Nations with timorous taste buds limit their knowledge and appetite, so that to the Anglo-American lay mind the aristocratic boletes are, at best, reformed toadstools.
In this case, the higher powers are film censors, whether philistine Senators or the timorous, arbitrary ethicists of the MPAA, valiantly guarding us from ourselves.
Away with this timorous advice of fainthearted men, we stand by the example of our stout-hearted men of fifty years ago.
Like many diaries that are written to order or published too quickly, it manages to sound both timorous and contrived.
He was a timorous specimen, terrified of taking a chance on being deprived of a living.
Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word, massive as oil tankers, others, small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer.
So there are enormous consequences for all of us when the owners elect not to act like owners, but like timorous lackeys desperate to please management.
If it had been, a particularly vicious correction must have occurred to turn Britain back into the timorous, conservative country it became in the Seventies.
There is still a strong impression that the party's political approach remains timorous and lacks creativity when it comes to figuring out new responses to old problems.
Girls, allegedly timorous and lacking in confidence, now outnumber boys in student government, in honor societies, on school newspapers, and in debating clubs.
Alas, the sad truth is that the CIA, despite its Bourne Identity reputation, has become a timorous, risk-averse bureaucracy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Secularist, is without presumption of an infallible creed, is without the timorous indefiniteness of a creedless believer.
But who can ever have been deceived that here was any one save a timorous defaulter in the matter of savoir-faire?
His policy appeared to be timorous and the result was a revival of Gallicanism among the French clergy.
He who had insouciantly reassured Mother had himself to choke down the timorous speculations of a shop-bound clerk.
However, Lisa only shrugged her shoulders and smiled at finding him so timorous.
He was devoted to the Countess, and was aye wont to be timorous where she was concerned.
I know few things more affecting than that timorous debasement and self-humiliation of a woman.
It rendered him timorous for a moment before that enigmatic, lighted door.
And she forced on the timorous Prue a quarter as her matriculation fee.
Bless that straightforward, timorous, modest American skipper!
A timorous Singer is unhappy, like a Prodigal, who is miserably poor.
His mien was that of the skulking, timorous, famished vagabond.
They are so timorous that they never feed but surrounded with other beasts that defend them.
They are often timorous and apprehensive, and prone to pedantism.
In some sense, the religion of the timorous and uninquisitive is true.
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous, desponding whimperers.
But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper.
Jane's frame of mind was naturally depressed and timorous, having been affected by Miranda's gloomy presages of evil to come.
I could think of no better expedient, and therefore went away in the night between the 23rd and 24th of April with my comrade, an old man, very infirm and very timorous.
But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.
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