Word: timidly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possibly the most violent burst of passion I've ever experienced . . . The passion . . . was ambition ... I felt myself capable of the greatest crimes and infamies"). The would-be cynic ("I've got to attack every woman I meet [to] form my character") was softened by the timid lover ("With a little more assurance or a little less love, I would perhaps have been sublime and would have had her"). The fluttering social butterfly ("I was brilliant ... I was wearing a waistcoat, silk breeches and black stockings, with a cinnamon-bronze coat, a very well arranged cravat, a superb...
...certainty about the New York election; it will not be decided on the personal appeal of the Candidates. Both Harriman and Ives are as colorless as they are capable. Harriman, who held a string of diplomatic and cabinet posts under the New and Fair Deals, is too timid and too patrician to campaign effectively. He was chosen as nominee partly because he could write his own campaign check (his grandfather built the Union Pacific), and partly because his success as a businessman would attract conservative voters...
...depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility. Some clung stubbornly to fragments of the exploded dream. More, resolving never again to be taken in by progress, settled for a program of anti-regression; economic stability and antifascism were timid goals. Since World War II, the intellectual climate has been changing. Social scientists, drawn back to the exciting and challenging present, have begun to update the future...
...finishing touches on a comprehensive plan to make over the French economy-basically healthy but stagnant, timid and backward-looking-which he will present to the National Assembly this week. This may prove his toughest fight...
...wanting a ceasefire. Geneva showed, he said, that there was no dispute that could not be settled by negotiation. He scarcely waited to get back to Moscow before he put this strategy to work by formally suggesting a new four-power conference on "European security." As Molotov calculated, the timid and the neutralists set up an immediate cry against precipitate action on EDC or West German sovereignty, before "one more try" at agreement on Germany, Nobody explained why the Communists, having just divided Indo-China, should now be willing to unite Germany...