timidity

Even in the face of Hollywood’s timidity, some American independent animators have managed to push their offbeat visions through as features made with limited resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

More timidity to observe, more vulnerability in defence, more powder-puff stuff up front, more wide men running in ever decreasing circles.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025

But this is not the time for judicial timidity.

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2025

Fear, panic and timidity rule the day, as they generally do.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

I remembered how my father had spoken to Clay’s mother in a halting, polite English and how he had excused her son for taking advantage of my timidity and misunderstandings.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

This culmination of a series of sentimental and financial timidities seemed to me to indicate that the Board was not acting fearlessly for the best interests of the students.

From Time Magazine Archive

What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.

From Time Magazine Archive

But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more mature meditations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ambiguous feelings are turned to ashes there; and so are doubts, hesitations, timidities, trepidations, cowardices.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper