Word: shyness
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...Foreign Minister is an unlikely firebrand. In person, he can be reserved to the point of shyness. When we met him at his office on June 24, we asked Lieberman whether Obama needed to take a tougher stand against Iran's crackdown on those protesting the results of the June 12 election. "This is a really fanatic, extremist regime that is still in power, and the young people ... are not getting any real support from the West," he said. "It shows the bad guys are winners." And he reiterated his resistance to any U.S. attempt to stop settlement growth...
Ezekiel Emanuel got a memorable introduction to our haphazard health-care system on his first visit to a cancer ward as a medical student. The white coats were ordering a transfusion for a teenage girl, and since shyness does not run in his family - brother Rahm is President Obama's famously foulmouthed chief of staff, brother Ari a similarly silence-deficient Hollywood agent - he interrupted to ask why. Because she had Hodgkin's disease and her platelets were below 20,000, the team explained. Emanuel still had questions: Was there evidence for that protocol? Don't some hospitals wait until...
...never seen anyone as quiet as he was. Shyness didn't even seem to do it justice, because it would take him 10 to 20 seconds to respond to a question. He wore dark sunglasses so you could just see your own reflection in them. And he had a hat pulled down over his face, so it was difficult to see who he was. When he did answer, it was in a whisper ... It did seem to both Cheryl Ruggiero and to me that he was depressed. But of course I'm not a psychiatrist...
...First Lady has an ability to exude a calm confidence amid chaos. As she mingled with 12 other spouses of G-20 heads of state at the opera house Thursday, she looked at times reserved if not a bit shy. But it did not appear to be a shyness born of insecurity as much as her own nature. She was not trying too hard to impress anyone...
...Though McLeod’s personality has been the dominant one on the ticket, when Flores begins talking about her potential political future, the usual shyness falls away—she slows down, leans forward, and engages...