Word: shyness
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...some reason, apparently, students do not want contact with professors. As an Undergraduate Council report on SCR's notes, "Most masters have horror stories about SCR members coming to lunch, and students ignoring them." The Council's report concludes that student disinterest is generally due to ignorance and shyness...
...recent editorial, "The public demands that (the royal family's) members embody fantasies which are contradictory: for freshness and sophistication, for novelty and stability." Paradoxically, that is precisely what the royal couple have been able to do, especially Diana. With her mixture of conservativism and modishness, of shyness and assurance, she conveys both continuity and spontaneity...
...plays, novels, stories, poems, essays, diaries and letters, Meyer scatters all the fascinating and self-contradictory clues a reader could ask for. Strindberg emerges as the most deceptive of fanatics. He was "slim and elegant," fastidious in his dress and aristocratic in his bearing, with a "trace of shyness." The great intimidator confessed to being "afraid of the dark," as well as of "dogs, horses, strangers." He did not lack that rarest trait of the possessed, a sense of humor. He loved Dickens. He translated Mark Twain. When the mood was upon him, possibly after a few absinthes, he strummed...
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, on his media shyness: "America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance...
...greatest play, The Glass Menagerie, Williams portrayed his mother, clinging to outworn social "standards" to validate her life, and his withdrawn sister Rose, her madness and eventual lobotomy transmuted onstage into shyness and a limp. His own surrogate alternated between cries of self- justification and outpourings of guilt. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams depicted the brute half of himself, Stanley Kowalski, destroying the fragile, distracted half, Blanche DuBois...