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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.
No one should confuse Bush’s caution with timidity.
This timidity recalls British and French policy in 1938, when the Sudetenland – and later Czechoslovakia – was sacrificed for a short-lived “peace in our time.”
The fear of losing that battle may explain the timidity of the left’s response.
His approach – to convince bureaucrats, opposition-party leaders, and the general public to support gradual reform – may seem to reflect cautious conservative timidity, but it has enabled the long-term success of his government’s measures.
As uncertainty and instability associated with that process spread around the globe, the West has responded with either timidity or nostalgia for older forms of nationalism that failed in the past and certainly will not work now.
And this problem was compounded by the timidity of in-country United Nations officials in communicating such information as they had.
Some scientists, indeed, are convinced that genetic tests will eventually help predict behavioral tendencies and personality traits – including predispositions to mental illness, homosexuality, addiction, even risk taking, timidity, and religiosity.
In short, an era of timidity and hesitation, bordering on paralysis, under the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has ended.
Too often the Security Council goes missing on the world’s most serious security and human rights problems, constrained by Realpolitik, out-of-date thinking, timidity, institutional limitations, or inadequate resources.
It is too late to debate whether the culprit was the unwillingness of the European public to embark on the path toward political union or the timidity of its national politicians to exercise leadership.
Timidity of the type witnessed in the past five years will only increase the risks.
Human well-being, even survival, will depend on scientific evidence and technological know-how triumphing over shortsighted greed, political timidity, and the continuing stream of anti-scientific corporate propaganda.
That timidity was a mistake.
Mr. Koizumi's timidity is not personal but, says Deepak Lal, reflects the stifling irresponsibility of Japan's political structures.
But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the “color revolution” route to democracy that other post-Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform does not justify isolation.
Add to this a widespread sense that South Korea's very national independence was secured by the statism at the core of the country's economic miracle and you have a recipe for political timidity, if not outright paralysis.
His mildness came to be dismissed as timidity, his unflappable manner excoriated as complacency and ineffectiveness.
In short, personal comfort resulted in political timidity and complacency.
But, clearly, an air of timidity has damaged the ECB’s credibility.
The result, I fear, will be heroic announcements heralding impressive numbers that disguise the irrelevance and timidity of the agreed policies.
Of medium height, thick-set and with a loose gait, Mikhaylov in his brown hat, olive-green overcoat and narrow trousers (at a time when wide ones had long since come into fashion), and especially his commonplace broad face, expressing a combination of timidity and a desire to be dignified, created an unpleasant impression.
It was the resolution of timidity, a thought of violence which choked his voice.
Emma, no doubt, did not notice his silent attentions or his timidity.
Moreover, his timidity had worn off by contact with his gay companions, and he returned to the provinces despising everyone who had not with varnished shoes trodden the asphalt of the boulevards.
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.
The ruthless warfare which his sense of duty was waging with his natural timidity was too exhausting for him to be in a condition to observe anything outside himself.
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