Word: shyness
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...spite of his shyness, young John did well at school, and at 15 was ready to enter the University of Vermont. There he fell in love with learning, borrowed $500 from an aunt and set off for the six-year-old Johns Hopkins University for more study. "Don't be so bookish," Hopkins President Daniel C. Gilman warned him; "get out and see more people." But John stuck close to his books; he had made up his mind to become a professional philosopher...
...hopelessly unlovable girl, turns her into just that. Using her inheritance as a weapon, he drives off the fortune hunter and blasts her only chance of happiness. The Heiress is something less than the stern and oppressive tragedy James wrote (for one thing, Olivia de Havilland's seductive shyness and warmth make her an unconvincing candidate for spinsterhood), but it still has enough strength to make it better than the run of movies...
...never smoothed off all his hillbilly edges, wriggled with shyness, protesting: "Aw, naw, general. But I've been reading a lot about you." After posting a 131 in the Celebrities Tournament, Sam struck out for Chicago...
During the mile drive in his little car, they lost some of their shyness and began pelting him with excited questions. And as they rounded a curve and saw the red brick houses set in wide surrounding fields, one of them exclaimed: "Just think -a village...
Young college instructors are sometimes timid, but few are so timid as Kenneth C. M. Sills was. In his Latin class at Bowdoin College, he sometimes chewed his handkerchief to shreds. By the time he acquired a nickname-"Casey" (after his initials)-he was over some of his shyness. When old grads gathered at Bowdoin last week to help him celebrate his 30th anniversary as president, they found him a mellowed version of his young self-a fumbling figure with a kindly smile and a comfortable paunch. Casey has been at bat so long that few Bowdoin men could ever...