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Timidity See also Cowardice. Alden, John (c. 1599–1687) too timid to ask for Priscilla’s hand in marriage. [Am. Lit.: “The Courtship of Miles Standish” in Benét, 230] could only express love for Marie in secret thoughts. [Am. Lit.: 0 Pioneers!, Magill I, 663–665] upon taking marriage vows, he needs wine to say “I do.” [Br. Lit.: The Bashful Man, Walsh Modern, 62–63] timid king of beasts. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] timorous schoolteacher. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] traditional symbol of timidity. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 400] feared “the smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor.” [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] mild-mannered reporter whose dynamic alter ego is Superman. [Comics: Berger, 146] withdrawn, self-effacing seamstress. [Br. Lit.: Little Dorrit] frightened away by a spider. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 323] the timid soul; easily controlled by others. [Comics: The Timid Soul, Espy, 141] timid, henpecked husband. [Am. Lit.: Payton, 448] . shy character in TV series. [TV: Terrace, II, 118–119] symbol of shyness and timidity. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 176]
diffident little pig; tremulously courageous. [Children’s Lit.: Winnie-the-Pooh] indecisive man, too shy and evasive to make a proposal. [Br. Poetry: T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”] indicates docility and diffidence. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177] crippled girl so shy that she has withdrawn into her own confined world. [Am. Drama: Williams The Glass Menagerie in Benét, 400] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Grose only as an effect of our consideration for my inevitable strangeness and her natural timidity. Her mother leaves her more to herself than she did, and I have her with me as much as possible, and have taken great pains to overcome her timidity. Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a fund of latent energy; masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions. |
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