Word: timidly
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...timid to face the consequences of eschewing torture, if we are not willing to die to prevent torture, if our judges and juries are too timid to face accused terrorists, if we need our president to relieve us from these onerous duties, we are finished as a free society. For there are many emotively good causes that may be “assisted” by torture or by some other odious but expeditious means...
...first two periods we played a little timid,” Stone said. “In the third period, we didn’t think about the score and we won the third period...
...appearing comfortable with my sexuality, I found life easier, relatively speaking, by the time I was a senior. The confident drag queen was more intimidating than the timid closet case. Whether my harassers feared my vitriolic quips or my confrontational finger snaps, they had stopped whispering, spitting and throwing. My flamboyance had worn them out. Well, most of them. One morning in October, as I left for school, I realized the mailbox was missing. I found my mother’s flower pots shattered on our front steps. I saw the word “faggot” etched...
...progress that science has made in unraveling the secrets of the child's brain, it's moms and grandmothers who have always had the right idea. A child with problems, they insist, makes no secret of it from the start, coming into the world timid, moody, jumpy or worse. Experts often dismiss such claims as hooey at best, blame ducking at worst, but there may be more to it than that. A growing body of research shows that newborns do tip their emotional hand early on, giving parents a chance to take control of behavioral problems and maybe even prevent...
...makes us safer, because questioning such measures makes us look suspicious and calls our loyalty into question. Businesses are counting on our silent compliance because we all fear that others will think we have something to hide if we protest. We have become a nation of citizens too timid to cry out against injustices and violations of our freedom. The historical precedent for this sort of nation is not encouraging...