Word: timidity
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...praised corporate funding for AIDSresearch, but encouraged Fortune 500 companies andunions to be less timid about involving themselvesin community AIDS programs...
...travelling show when "La Strada begins." Needing another assistant, Zampano returns to Rosa's village where the girls' mother agrees to sell Gelsomina to Zampano also, in exchange for 10,000 lire. The other children are going hungry and Gelsomina herself is regarded as somewhat worthless; she is exceedingly timid and does no work to help the family. If this exchange seems somewhat coldhearted, it only hints at the treatment Gelsomina will receive throughout the rest of the film...
After taking back the function of the kiosk, the Square will finally begin to reappropriate the space for itself. Performers will come out of the woodwork--first a timid juggler, then a JFK-Mark-David-Chapman-CIA-Stephen-King conspiracy theorist and a pitiful guitarist who thinks he's Jimi Hendrix...
...expected an interview with Mr. T. would be tough, but I didn't think he'd be timid. The question I asked him, about the parts Black actors are getting today, got silence in response. This was terrible; I got tense. But after a tenacious follow-up, T started talking: "I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose--there are some roles I don't play. I don't do pimp roles, I don't do dope-dealing roles, or whatever. Whatever role I play is a positive role; it's a strong role...
...question, Heart and Souls is a cry movie in every stitch of its elaborate plot. In 1959 four strangers -- a working mother (Alfre Woodard), a petty thief (Tom Sizemore), a waitress in love (Kyra Sedgwick) and a timid opera singer (Charles Grodin) -- board a San Francisco bus and die when the driver swerves to avoid a car. In that car, at that moment, a woman gives birth to a boy, Thomas; and in his body the spirits of the four dead passengers are trapped. Today the ghosts have learned that Thomas (Robert Downey Jr.) can perform one act for each...