Word: shyness
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Evening in Paris. Pierre Wertheimer, who for all his personal shyness is a supersalesman, thinks that there is nothing wrong with the perfume business that hard-hitting promotion will not cure...
...Then there has been the unforgettable spectacle of politicians rising up ... to explain how their sensitive natures recoil from the vulgarity of commercial radio . . . It is rather as though Moll Flanders, confronted with the possibility of finding herself alone with a gentleman friend, should have fainted right away from shyness...
...first time I ever tried to paint hands," said the President in a tone of mixed pride and shyness. "It is very dark around the eyes," he added, thoughtfully. "I'm very awkward." Then he showed Jones a note written on the back of the canvas in grease-pencil: "Bob, by his friend D.D.E...
...neck there rises a handsomely shaped skull:his hair is well-implanted, white and crew-cropped; his light eyes swim hugely behind the thick trifocals a man must wear who is too farsighted to cope unaided with the close at hand. As he warms to a subject, an initial shyness disappears; his ideas pop up faster & faster, as interminably as bubbles from a test tube held in a hot blue flame. Two hours may pass, but the answer to a simple question is not complete; Bucky is still stewing, happily and softly, in his own rich juices, his quiet, cultivated...
...stuffed-shirt dignity is also not a part of his character. The summer after he was elected president he spent abroad with his wife; they created a sensation by traveling second-class on the "Europa." A CRIMSON of that same era reported that Conant's outstanding characteristic was his shyness; as substantiation it reported the following conversation between Conant and a man he was calling up to appoint his secretary...