Word: shyness
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Martinis & Murder. Today Dame Edith faces the world in a composite armor of shyness, imperiousness and friendliness. She likes her solitude, and she likes her martinis. At Renishaw, she stays in bed till noon reading and writing as a huge wood fire blazes away. Much as she likes elegance, she is addicted to occasional forays into London's East End, where she often chats with prostitutes and barrow boys. On these excursions, her friends say, she creates for herself an underworld dream life. She also follows murder cases avidly, recently dragged brother Osbert to the scene of the grisly...
...truly beautiful; yet if it were no for the warm voice and delicate diction of Edward Thommen, so long a speech would have seemed dull. Robert Heavenridge, as Melville, and Martin Halpern, as the artist, are quite good, while Mathida Hills, playing the first woman, perfectly captures the terrified shyness intended by Phelps, and Elinor Fuchs is wonderfully funny as her coarse, insensitive companion...
Camouflaging his stubborn shyness with a businesslike air, he sat and examined the keyboard closely whenever the New York Philharmonic-Symphony played without him. As his entrances approached, he grew tense, and his body began to sway and jerk to the rhythm. But there was nothing jerky about his playing. From his crashing fanfares to his softly rippling passagework, his performance had the strength and luster of blue steel. When the music ended, there was a moment of silence before the crowd recovered itself enough to start cheering...
...eyes were like caves in his pale face, and his thin lips and thin fingers often writhed with nervous shyness when he talked. But what Britain's famed Gloomy Dean said was unshy enough to jolt generations of Britons. He approved of divorce, birth control ("We are breeding from the bottom and dying off at the top"), euthanasia, and in certain cases suicide (he thought condemned criminals, for instance, should be allowed to kill themselves as they wished). He disapproved of democracy, cosmetics, Martin Luther, Roman Catholicism and revolutionaries (whom he advocated shooting down "like mad dogs...
...born in 1893, a Yorkshireman descended from generations of Yorkshiremen, all farmers. His whole outlook on life has been mellowed by these deep roots; they give him the innately cautious attitude of an English country gentleman. He is quiet, always calm, and reticent--modest to the point of shyness. A friend who has known him for thirty years claims Read is one man about whom no anecdote will ever be told...