Word: shyness
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...foot two and ruggedly handsome, Benedict is an odd mixture of shyness and aggressiveness. He speaks slowly and softly, choosing each word with care, and has to' be coaxed into talking about himself. But in discussing his business, he displays the combative urge that made him a championship wrestler in high school and during his two-year Navy hitch. Says Pat: "It's a sport I identify with. You're out there on your own, and if you can't cut it, it's pretty obvious." He feels much the same about farming, castigating many of his fellows for being...
...love with every woman he saw," intimating that he was always worried about hurting his friends and the women he knew. Thus, we are shown a very shy man. Some of Kerouac's childhood friends say that he did not have many girlfriends during high school because his "shyness was always taken as conceit...
...would react to him in an intense way. Though not social or gregarious, they were like a vaudeville team at home, and Warren and I would sit there and watch. It made both of us rather shy, and one of our quests in life has been to overcome that shyness with self-expression...
Bronson's biggest success was 1974's Death Wish, in which he played a nice guy turned vigilante. Since then his pictures have not done as well. Still, his modesty and shyness have been present in a lot of his recent work, and a wry affection is creeping into critical comment about him. Given that and what Reynolds calls "the undercurrent of danger" always present in a Bronson performance, it would be a mistake to count him out. He may be more dependent than his competitors on chance delivering the right script, but if a sizzler turns...
...apartment for the soon to be married couple. He writes Ellis, describing a place he has found, asking her if she would like her bedroom "off the front room or farther back." Yardley says "the reference to 'your bedroom' seems to have been a bow to propriety and shyness that both Ring and Ellis felt about discussing such matters as sleeping arrangements...