Word: timidation
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Politicians are far more timid creatures than many like to admit. Dramatic and sensible departures have not been a notable part of their approaches in the past decades. Those who did advocate drastic change were too often mystics or men of such extreme views that a majority of Americans could not take them seriously. Credibility, viability, seriousness of intent and dignity would be required in this venture. But it might generate more excitement than can now be measured in a nation that craves reality...
...been improved since 1968, when it dropped out of the war after suffering sharp losses against the better-trained U.S. pilots. One theory has it that with the reduction of U.S. air strength, Hanoi's air chiefs have come under pressure to be less timid with their precious planes. Says a military analyst in Saigon: "I can imagine a situation in the North Vietnamese Politburo where the civilians demand of the military, 'Well, you've got the damn things. When the hell are you going to use them...
...equal in quality, he feels: one is a law student, one a medical student, one the daughter of a faculty member, and among the nonstudents he employs are 15 schoolteachers; 25% of the women are married. Says Morgan: "As a rule the men who come here are shy, timid and extremely polite. Some of them never even bother to take pictures. They just like to discuss their problems with an intelligent nude woman...
...Chiao was pointing at Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik. "If you are man enough, you will do it. But if you have a guilty conscience and an unjust cause, you will not dare to do so, because although you appear to be tough outwardly, you are in fact timid inwardly. We are certain that you will not dare to do so. Is this not true? Please reply...
...André Gide wrote of him in 1905. "There is nothing sentimental or highfalutin about the discreet melancholy which pervades his work. Its dress is that of everyday. It is tender and caressing, and if it were not for the mastery that already marks it, I should call it timid. For all his success, I can sense in Vuillard the charm of anxiety and doubt...