Word: timidating
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Michaels catalogues the degradation in all this, but distinguishes, even in a corrupt social order, between those who are solely degraded--women, children, unlucky timid males--and the young men whose with privileges them to degrade others as well. The book's title expresses this, lifted from a letter of Byron's which tells of the poet's reaction to three executions...
Last week, however, there were clear signs that in sounding the Rank gong for Dowson, Davis may have written the last chapter of his own imperial reign. Long-timid Rank directors approved what was termed Dowson's "resignation." But, troubled by sagging profits, they issued a statement saying they were considering proposals "for broad corporate reorganization." Among the expected reforms: delegation by Davis of real authority to division managers; nomination of a director who would live in the U.S. and maintain close liaison with the American investors who own 45% of Rank's shares...
...final member of the Wingfield clan is the timid, waif-like Laura, whose face is often blank, but whose eyes are as innocent and easily frightened as a deer's. In the first act, Muffie Meyers acts a Laura too withdrawn to be more than pitiful as she caresses her glass animals, but as the play wears on she wins our fuller sympathy...
...head for West Yellowstone. By the time we get there, all the windows and air vents in the van are open. The elk's stench lies softly. At a fishing cabin Briggs rented last summer, we repack the van. In its bag, the head is baleful and timid, and I fondle it while unloading. Out of its bag, the head smells like a 2 a.m. urinal with broken plumbing and I kick dust over it. Briggs and I load it on the front of the van, between the bikes on the bike rack. Thick, greasy and matted, the hair...
Despite their confident use of statistics, graphs and maps to limn the future, city planners have no claim on prescience. They depend instead on an all too fallible blend of private intuition and public persuasion; theirs is not a profession for the timid. Most persuasive of them all, at least through the 1960s, was Greece's Constantinos Apostolos Doxiadis, who was buried last week after dying at the age of 62 of multiple sclerosis. Based in Athens, he specialized in drawing up practical housing programs for developing countries and thus directly influenced the lives of tens of millions...