| His policy appeared to be timorous and the result was a revival of Gallicanism among the French clergy. |
| I had been transformed from timorous novice to impassioned biker. |
| But the thinking behind it is consistent with the rather timorous, hands-off approach to recent conflicts. |
| And we have become a surprisingly timorous nation because we don't ask our leaders, our politicians serious questions. |
| On the contrary, if the style is too formal, this may cause a timorous respondent to close down even more. |
| Even a timorous proposal to convert taxis from diesel to less-polluting petrol five years ago failed to win legislative support. |
