Word: shyness
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...speaking role. Dressed and drawling like a cowboy, he walked on stage in his characteristically shy way, and delivered his lines blushing on center stage. A double-bass was put into his hands, and as the orchestra started up and John played the number "Slap That Bass," his shyness fell away--he closed his eyes and his wrists snapped the strings, to a roar of applause and laughter from his friends in the audience...
...surprising, since Robbins and Sarandon, a real-life couple, are not known for their shyness in expressing outraged opinions on controversial subjects. Here, however, working from a free adaptation of an autobiographical book by Sister Prejean, they have chosen to pursue a matter too subtle for sloganeering: the faint possibility that evil and goodness can find a way of speaking to one another, the dim hope that the former can be in some sense redeemed, the latter in some sense educated...
...Jackie Collins. Imitating Gingrich's rapid-fire delivery, Farley then pushed through bills declaring all Democrats officially weird and moving the nation's capital to Atlanta. He also proposed that Sonny Bono sing I've Got You, Newt, but the freshman Congressman, in a rare display of stage shyness, politely declined...
...commentator standing outside the action, now the hot-tempered and frustrated artist. When he nearly upsets Laura's menagerie, the look that flashes across his face is a tiny cornucopia of rue, love, self-disgust, fear and resignation. Calista Flockhart's Laura is near perfect, her pathological shyness so organic that it is painful to watch. Only a tendency to sing her words mars her performance. As the Gentleman Caller upon whom Amanda pins her great hopes for Laura, Kevin Kilner is properly hearty, even if his self-assurance seems a bit put on rather than intrinsic...
...hardcore porn. "The medication redefined what was essential and what was contingent about his own personality," writes his psychiatrist Peter Kramer in Listening to Prozac. Or consider the hyperactive child who takes Ritalin and discovers that now other kids will play with him. Social acceptance in a pill. Shyness, too, may succumb to a chemical cure. Research suggests that 1 in 5 babies is predisposed to be timid because of hypersensitivity of the amygdala -- a small structure in the brain. Fixing such problems may sound like better living through chemistry, but it rattles the very bedrock of identity...