shy away

Not ones to shy away from a fight, the Sailor Senshi defend their leader to the death.

Charles Barkley has never been one to shy away from confrontation both on and off the basketball court.

And, he has never been one to shy away from grand presentations.

While many people shy away from political conversation at the dinner table, Conflict Kitchen is promoting it.

If cuckolding is just another kink, like BDSM, why do so many shy away from ever mentioning it?

Christian teachers shy away from its full implications, and, if they mention it at all, mute it down till it has little meaning.

De mo' open en above boa'd you is, de mo' you is gwine ter see de thing you is atter begin ter shy away f'om you.

Flies were consumers of corruption, but even the flies two feet in length would shy away from a man who waved his arms at it.

And my impression is that he did read them some, and that he did not shy away from reading a Russian newspaper as I do.

But the very sharpness of that interest makes him shy away awkwardly from the subject of her past.