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Sentence Examples The advantages of psychoanalysis are primarily that it hasn't shied away from studying the mind as it is, as we live it. He shied away from the public eye in the months leading up to the conference. Questions remain as to how exactly this will be done as the Home Office shied away from fleshing out the detail yesterday. A lot of people went up to talk to him after the show, but I've always shied away from that sort of thing. But it has shied away from forthrightly stating its position for fear of massive public opposition. The script itself could almost read as a short story, and lexically, Walsh hasn't shied an inch. I've always shied away from cruises, but this is not cruising in the accepted sense. The girl looked at the window of the Drexler place, and shied off as the old, batty pair of eyes came down upon her. She had only ever before known a hotly breathing, living yarraman, a yarraman that walked and cantered and neighed and shied and bucked. But the white horse shied away from her, his wild eyes showing their whites, ears laid back in fear. They all shied aside as the headlamps swept over them and the truck skidded to a halt. At that moment, a flash of green and brown shot between them, and the black stallion shied, backing away, neighing. His horse shied a little as a score of men heavily armed marched loudly past, metal armour clanking. They flinched and shied away from the sudden, loud noise, and I took that moment to bolt. Justine watched her father's steady hand movements towards the filly's head as she shied away. Hoss jumped, and the horse shied, the twin jolts coming together in the agony of his jawbone. Naturally, he'd always shied away from emotional attachments, especially romantic ones, since love was something he knew pitifully little about. He never backed out of anything or shied away from any opponent, and he was prepared to put his career on the line every time he fought. For general bathing, people used the public baths but shied away from the communal washing areas, which had a stigma attached to them. Directors have shied away from making gory movies of this genre assuming that audiences find heroics in historical garb unexciting. Show More Sentences Many investment managers shied away from bonds early in the year, convinced that yields would rise as the Fed hiked short-term rates. Certainly, Scott has shied away from making it a Hollywood movie in which the good guys win and the bad guys lose. The manuscript had been circulated among various publishers, most of whom shied away from this provocative treatment of a sensitive subject. On various sporting topics this column has never shied from the notion that talent, no matter how coltish, should be given free rein. Presented with a giant root vegetable, old-school politicians would have shied away. We have never shied away from change and have always communicated this to our clients, employees and investors. Despite its reservations on the very concept of net balances, the Commission has not shied away from the issue. This is extremely complex work, but CSOs have not shied away from accountability. As a capable statesman, he never shied away from responsibility and performed his duties with devotion and professionalism. This is what the Labour government should have done after the Hutton inquiry, but shied away from. Or it has simply shied from doing anything much, as in Syria. Yet reports of the death of American influence in the Middle East are exaggerated. Moreover, the use of the short-design draft shied in automated weighing processes is advantageous. However, he shied away from any programmatic interpretations of his work, voicing the opinion that music was to be interpreted solely by the listener. Still, DHS has shied away from publicizing these homegrown threats despite such compelling data. He thought the ground rocked slightly beneath him, and that he surely must be dreaming or seeing things, when Sport suddenly shied and reared back, nearly unseating him. Dusty eased onto the bronco, who shied as soon as he felt weight on him. The incident happened when the horse was being led along the towpath on Sunday by her owner when she shied at a cycle barrier and bolted backwards. I stayed at her side as we threaded our way through the room, accompanied by the sound of furniture scraping on the floor as patrons shied away from me. But even when he was in the rag trade, he never shied from controversy. Unlike their counterparts in the North, the top filmstars hereabouts have so far shied away from identifying themselves with a particular political party. Show More Sentences Paul has mostly talked about religious liberty, and Christie has shied away from the issue almost altogether. Joe never shied away from hard work and in his young days worked in England where the farmers appreciated his great ability in the hay fields and cornfields. His horse shied to the right, making room on the path for the newcomer. Plamondon, a fierce polemicist, never shied away from using the press to promote his concepts about painting and to denigrate his rivals. After his shocking split from the white-power movement he was born into, 24-year-old Derek Black shied away from the media. I included an anodyne letter, but I shied away from saying what I should have said. He shied a bit from me, but Cae slipped a carrot into my hand. All but a few gadflies have shied away from calling for Mr Toledo's impeachment. Perhaps this is a good thing: for too long many in the forest community have shied away from putting a value on the priceless. The European Union has not shied away from its responsibilities towards its partner countries. Investors shied away from riskier currencies as it became apparent that European interest rates will likely remain at their record lows for some time. From the rugged slopes of Kashmir to the heat and humidity of Haiti and almost every imaginable place in between, we have never shied away from our commitments. The federal government has shied away from strengthening codes and standards in recent years, so the innovation in that area has been at the state level. Despite the pain that one feels on reviewing the events of Juli-Anna's life and death, we have shied away from pointing the finger of blame at any individual. We have not shied away from action at any time since then. In The Unnamed, he shied away from that success, aiming instead for a squiffy sort of realism that sometimes seemed to deliberately squander his natural gift. Governments shied away from dealing with social problems. It was left mainly to individuals, churches and other charitable organizations to attend to the public welfare. The horse shied away from the rider, which startled him so much he shied away from the horse. The Progressive Conservative Party has never shied away from national referendums and can lay claim to having been one of the national governments that ever openly participated in national referendums in a tangible way. Others have shied away from a muscular European foreign policy, and especially defence policy, for fear that this would sever the all-important transatlantic link. Show More Sentences Although it would appear difficult to implement the sort of standards and verification protocols advocated by some researchers, the Nanosafe2 European integrated project has not shied away from moving in this direction. He notes that missile defence is a question that concerns not only certain EU NATO members but all EU member states and regrets that the EU has to date shied away from a general discussion on missile defence. Most donors, skeptical of the public sector's ability to use aid in a manner fully consistent with the PRSP, have shied away from providing assistance in the form of general budget support. The rough-and-tumble character never shied away from a tackle, and is reputed to have made a rugby-style, waist-high tackle on Stanley Mortensen late in the game. Even Lula, who is stratospherically popular, has shied away from openly supporting peace enforcement and the left still attacked him over Haiti for bending the Brazilian tradition of non-intervention. She's grateful for the support provided at the Olympic training center, and makes generous use of it: she's never shied away from asking questions. In practice, companies have often shied away from this, instead preferring to give nutritional content 'per portion' or 'per serving', based on estimates of what their customers typically eat. But when the inquirers learned what was involved, most of them shied away. The sad experience of my country and my people is evidence that Russia has never shied away from using force and pressure when it has been able to do so. He was an undistinguished pupil who shied away from school, preferring reading. At a time when our economy was so depressed and when, under natural conditions, we would have shied away from hosting guests, God enabled us to welcome into our presence all those people-and to minister to them. The national Church has never shied from involvement in Scottish politics. Examples from Classical Literature The stable-hands all seemed to know Pinckney and to be proud of it, but they shied some at Rajah and me. When he joined her, the pony, whose reins had been tied to the pack, snorted and shied. He shied the book into a corner, drew off his boots and cast them into the hall. I began to see, or thought I did, why Hope had shied at my offer and was now shunning me. The White Pony shied at a flash of heat lightning, and stumbled bunglingly on a rolling stone. Then, for no reason, he shied again, and started off on a jog trot toward the east. I visited a taxi rank and stopped this man and that, but all shied at the distance. A really good dog, if a little shied by the crowd round him, will be quite out of the running in a field trial. But it was wonderful to see how Mahommed Seti took the kourbash at the hands of Fielding, when he shied from the medicine bottles. Their cappadocian horses had shied, reared, and then galloped off like the whirlwind. Mia Farrow, who turned 69 at the weekend, has never shied away from making public her hatred of Allen, her partner for 12 years. He shied his helmet into the corner, and in half a minute he had a new wick in the alcohol lamp and was firing up on the croup-kettle. The gentleman shied in a most spirited fashion, slopping his tea. The horse shied, the cavalryman jumped off and knocked him down. Only my horse shied at the costermonger's carrot-cart there. The horse saw me appear directly in front of him, shied and reared. When he recognized Lady Brandon he waved his cap, and when they met he sprang from his inanimate steed, at which the bay horse shied. The animal swerved and shied and galloped off wide of the quintain. The beast shied, opened its wide nostrils and tossed its mane, then rearing high up in the air, its hind feet slipped and it fell with its rider down the steep mountain side. They seemed to be numerous, for she shied at every shadow on the road. Show More Sentences I must have shied at it as a horse shies at an object it fears. Find more words! 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