Timidity
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Madame de Renal's extreme
timidity
was disconcerted by the idea of this stranger who, in the performance of his duty, would be constantly coming between her and her children.
More example sentences with word timidity
His trademarks are childlike innocence,
timidity
of approach and a tendency to under-react to calamity by looking perplexed, batting his eyes or touching his pursed lips with the tip of his forefinger.
This could have been very entertaining, but there was a veil of timidity, even cowardice, that hung over each scene.
You really get the impression of the total
timidity
and bewilderment of the Bolvian peasant to Che's revolutionary ideas or of the difficulties that his men faced with hunger and the terrain.
The whole thing would appear to have started out as a terrifically cute stage play, sabotaged on its way to the screen by compromise, timidity, and tired schtick.
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