Word: timidly
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...hotel rooms where pornography is available, two-thirds of all movie purchases are for pornos; and the average time they are watched is 12 minutes. The image instantly summoned is of the traveling businessman who wants a smidge of sexual exercise before retiring, but who is too tired, timid or cheap to summon a call girl. He cares little about whatever niceties of dialogue or mise-en-scene the movie may contain. He seeks only a brisk hand job, self-applied, then clicks off the TV, and so to bed. Someone I know, on hearing of this archetypal businessman, wondered...
...children and adults who feel constrained by their shyness, there are many ways to break free. Parents, first, must respond to their kids' timid behavior with empathy, taking care not to equate being anxious with being bad, says Dr. Regina Pally of UCLA. "They should send soothing signals that say, 'This is hard. I'm going to help you deal with it. You're not being a baby.'" For shy adults, cognitive talk therapy can place anxieties in perspective, lowering the stakes of social situations and reducing the fears associated with them. Behavioral therapy is a good treatment for social...
Authored by two second-year HLS students, Benjamin S. Litman and Pooja A. Bhatia `98-`99, the report rebukes MINUSTAH for adopting a “timid interpretation of its mandate,” and offers recommendations to ameliorate the situation...
...industry responded as threatened industries often do?it forgot how it became successful in the first place. Gone was the freewheeling spirit that fueled the creativity of the '80s and produced international icons like Jackie Chan. There were exceptions, but too many Hong Kong filmmakers began to churn out timid, formulaic comedies with the same old stars. Audiences flocked instead to the high-budget Hollywood event movies that are increasingly pitched at international audiences, and to films from Asian nations like South Korea, where young directors weaned on John Woo are making the kinds of dynamic movies Hong Kong used...
...Memphis, most of the protestors didn't have the gumption to push out a full rant. Several just yelled "no," at various points. This initiated a predictable chain of events. First responders seated around the timid hecklers held up their arms and pointed so that security officials where to launch their purge. Most left quietly. One woman-who had been polite enough to yell "with all due respect"-required two policemen, who held her skinny elbows as they ushered her up the aisle. In Louisville, the crowd erupted in a standing ovation to drown out a woman who refused...