Word: timidating
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...where the film’s creativity runs rampant, the plotting’s a little too timid for its own good. After raising the stakes with their last outing, “A Close Shave,” wherein the lives of the protagonists seem to be in genuine peril, the two reside in safer territory in “Were-Rabbit.” This time, anything that’s in mortal danger can generally be found at a salad...
...Helmut Kohl, Germany's larger-than-life Chancellor, tapped her as Minister for Women and Youth for his Cabinet in 1991. She established herself as both ambitious and willing to learn, outmaneuvering a succession of male colleagues to take the party leadership in 2000. "She's criticized for being timid," says political scientist Gerd Langguth, her biographer, "but she's a political panther...
...driver for assessment who has been reported to them by a police officer, a physician, a relative or any other concerned citizen. As a last resort, some adult children feel compelled to report their own parents. (Six states allow anonymous reporting.) Some complain that their parents' doctors are too timid about intervention. Linda Bryant, an administrative assistant in Orlando, Fla., was incensed when an eye doctor told her 76-year-old father that he was fine to drive. "I wrote the doctor," she says, "that if and when the accident happened, I'd send the victims to his doorstep...
Frontman Tom P. Lowe ‘05 sang at first to an almost empty floor on Wednesday. But the band played with an energy and charisma disproportionate to the crowd, unleashing catchy, beat-driven rock and jazz to an initially timid group of high schoolers...
That's happened a number of times. Julia MacKenzie in Side by Side by Sondheim in London, when she did Broadway Baby, started it very tentative and quiet and timid and then suddenly opened up in a Wagnerian soprano--that was something that had never occurred to me, and it was stunning...