Word: shyness
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...took the drama to its emotional climax. Gotlieb as Laura communicated primarily through eloquent looks before the arrival of the Gentleman Caller; but opened up with marvelous expressiveness in the tete-a-tete with her former high school "crush." In face, voice, and gesture, she touchingly evoked the painful shyness and self-consciousness of the disabled girl who is given one brief chance to bloom. Yet she also possessed an air of unexpected (and deeply affecting) grace and dignity in the most heartbreaking moment of the play...
...about getting over the shyness," says Alexander M. Fung '98, captain of BDC. Fung started ballroom dancing with his older sister, Jennifer M. Fung '97, when he was 10 Now both Fung and his sister dance on the Harvard team, an activity marked more by skill than talent he says...
...projecting an exuberance that was ultimately irresistible. It also had a big plus in its leading man: Tim Arnold was perfect as the matador whose puffed-up complacency gives way to an amiable cluelessness with the onset of his amnesia. He even succeeded in making El Bean's smitten shyness around Ana engagingly dopey without degenerating into complete farce...
When the Chinatown group showed a game of ouija in their video, the teens' curiosity overcame any shyness and they joked with each other like close friends...
...exert certain effects on the mind. Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs--physically robust, psychologically assertive--and ectomorphs--skinny, nervous, shy. But even if these generalizations hold some water, it needn't mean that ectomorphs have genes for shyness. It may just mean that skinny people get pushed around on the junior-high playground and their personality adapts. (This is one problem with those identical-twins-reared-apart studies by behavioral geneticists: Do the twins' characters correlate because of "character genes" or sometimes just because appearance shapes experience which...