Word: shyness
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...then, visiting a businessman named Nathan once or twice a week regularly. He had met Nathan in late August, in a bar. At that period in his life, Scott was telling everybody the Truth. Eloquently. He was making an effort to quit feeling embarrassed by his intellect, overcome his shyness, and to really help humanity. So when Nathan offered to buy him a beer, Scott smiled brightly and said...
...OSCAR DE LA RENTA thinks that natural shyness is probably responsible for the fact that Mrs. Nixon "hasn't started blooming yet." He envisions her as "ladylike" and "distinguished," an air she could cultivate by dressing in "a more feminine and fluid way." His boldly belled crepe pants suit with gold trim has that liquid look...
Like Balthazar B, James Patrick Donleavy, who is currently on a U.S. lecture tour, is a shy man with fine features and a soft, halting voice. And like Balthazar, he compensates for his shyness with a bold appearance, in this case, a scraggly Van Gogh kind of beard, heavy tweeds and knickers (augmented in foul weather by a cape and a Sherlock Holmes hat), and a walking stick. To all outward appearances, then, he seems like a turn-of-the-century product of the British Isles. In fact, he was born in Brooklyn of Irish parents...
...political fortunes prospered, Lurleen mothered his four children, remaining in the background when they settled into the Governor's mansion in Montgomery in 1963. And in 1966, when Wallace, barred from succeeding himself, set his eye on the White House, Lurleen loyally conquered her own tongue-tied shyness and hid the pangs of advancing abdominal cancer to win the governorship in her own right...
That scene too Hamlin directed as if the lovers were simply applecheeked sweeties with a crush on one another. Motley had the shyness of a boy who bumped into a girl after tennis, was tremendously pleased, didn't know what to say. Miss Heineman, though her lines implied she'd been forward, gave us no sign of it. The lovers treated each other as if they were terribly delicate. One outbreak, one glance unprotected by coyness, and they would no longer look like valentines to the audience. What the actors, and presumably Hamlin, didn't realize about Romeo and Juliet...