Word: timidly
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Included in the film are photographs of Matisse's The Peasant Blouse, made at 15 stages of progress over a period of five months. The painting began with a reasonably naturalistic and (for Matisse) timid sketch from a model. Every subsequent stage looks as complete as the final one, though not even the last version seems "finished"-a Matisse seldom does. In spite of the drastic changes Matisse made as he went along, every version brought his original conception more boldly into focus. His admirers might have accepted any of the early versions as a masterpiece, but not Matisse...
...maid in the Monday family's home, Sara pitied the "hampered and hagged" master of the house, Matt Monday, who though in his 40s was still "like a child, and kept from his rights as a man" by "his good mamma and his older sister." When the timid Matt proposed, Sara accepted him. Then, aflame with youth and cocky in her new social position, she began to notice other...
...stupid crime. In a message from Moscow, where the protection of bigwigs is a highly developed science, Premier Stalin rebuked his Italian satraps for not taking better care of Togliatti. Crestfallen, they responded with an article in L'Unitá promising to purge themselves of "the timid, the opportunists, the dishonest and the provocateurs." They also disclosed that party membership had dropped by 50,000 (to 2,200,000) in the past year...
Nothing But Flops. At 23 Gide was a pale, thin neurotic who roamed the streets of Paris with brown beard, affectedly long hair and a spectacular cape. Timid and tongue-tied in public, he was constantly depressed about his work, his cousin Emmanuèele's refusal to marry him and the discovery that he had tuberculosis...
Young college instructors are sometimes timid, but few are so timid as Kenneth C. M. Sills was. In his Latin class at Bowdoin College, he sometimes chewed his handkerchief to shreds. By the time he acquired a nickname-"Casey" (after his initials)-he was over some of his shyness. When old grads gathered at Bowdoin last week to help him celebrate his 30th anniversary as president, they found him a mellowed version of his young self-a fumbling figure with a kindly smile and a comfortable paunch. Casey has been at bat so long that few Bowdoin men could ever...