Word: timide
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...FORGET, FOR A MOMENT, THE NOTORIETY of SINEAD O'CONNOR. Imagine that the truculent Irish skinhead is a timid thrush at the back of a noisy saloon, addressing with a quavering intimacy pop standards associated with Billie Holiday (Gloomy Sunday), Peggy Lee (Why Don't You Do Right?), Sarah Vaughan (Black Coffee), even Doris Day (Secret Love). And she's not bad. O'Connor can exasperate on her new album, Am I Not Your Girl? -- she wails this phrase 26 times in one song and closes the set with a dark harangue against the Roman Catholic clergy. But these assaults...
...They're afraid of things they don't understand," Izzy says of the timid students and tourists...
When O'Connor's vocals get a little thin, the listener's familiarity with some of these tracks is the magic ingredient that keeps the musical souffle from falling. For example, in "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," her approach is almost timid. She floats over the notes instead of taking them by the throat in her usual manner. But hey, this is Evita we're talking about. Everyone knows Evita (there's a picture of Andrew Lloyd Weber in the dictionary next to "cultural literacy"). And it's still Sinead! "I Want to Be Loved By You" contains...
...lowest approval rating in the opinion polls, any false move could tarnish the President's claim that he is uniquely qualified to lead the U.S. through the world's dangerous waters. Up to now, his caution has been considered reasonable; after this week it could be judged timid and indecisive. In this highly charged atmosphere, Democratic campaign rivals and Republicans in Congress are pushing Bush to reconsider his policies. Yet voters could easily see a military commitment in Bosnia -- or anywhere else -- as an electoral gimmick. At the same time, Bush has proclaimed himself the master of the new world...
...frustrated senate president, Dr. John Kitzhaber, father of the proposal. But almost nobody in Oregon -- or Washington -- thinks the fuss about the handicapped is anything but a smoke screen. Oregon's real mistake is that it tried to make tough choices about health care in an election year when timid politicians prefer to avoid the issue like the plague...