Word: timidation
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...When a timid young stranger flops down, "destroyed from walking," in a County Mayo pub and confesses that he has murdered his father in some far place, all the young women in the neighborhood find him superbly glamorous; indeed, the publican's daughter Pegeen is ready to throw over her commonplace swain to marry him. Fired by all this adulation, mousy Christopher Mahon (Burgess Meredith) begins to see himself as a lion, cops all the prizes in a sports contest, becomes a very chesty...
...mass inferiority complex has developed amongst a large portion of the Radcliffe student body. Only occasionally does a girl venture to raise a timid hand and make a timid statement in a section meeting. Sullenly, she begins to accept her supposed inability to think, but aptitude for studying, as a truism. She gets frightened by women-hating professors and women-scorning students...
...group: U.N.'s Preparatory Committee of the International Trade and Employment Conference. It was significant that, in order to convene it at all, the sponsor (U.N.'s Social and Economic Council) had to promise timid participating nations that the meeting would be truly preparatory, and that no commitments were expected from anyone. It would merely propose an annotated agenda for a future conference, which might get down to cases...
...recovery coming from? From politics? European politics has become just one vast area of frustration. The tory parties are finished, though it is characteristic of individual tories that some of them haven't yet found that out. The traditional social democratic parties are old and tired and timid. . . . Everywhere in Europe, the Communists are the party with what driving power there is. They at least seem to know what they're trying to do. They act like men who really believe in their offer of salvation...
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward...