Word: timidly
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Most readers will find it hard to go all the way with such extreme admiration. But they will certainly agree that in its ambitiousness and audacity, Under the Volcano makes the average novel look small and timid. It begins with a simple triangle (two brothers, one woman), around which Author Lowry constructs a huge and complicated interplay of struggle and emotion...
Thus I relieve their timid arses...
...Elena Ivanovna suddenly became timid. She turned pale and shrunk together as though she had been touched with something coarse, and walked away without saying another word...
...whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their former conventional blinkers. It is a fact too that [although] many academic 'realistic' painters dare to appear in their naked photographic vulgarity, they now make a timid try at what are for them daring color schemes. We may claim to have done the mopping...
Miss Maxwell, the world's most publicized party-thrower, tried to put on a big Opera Ball in Chicago. Chicagoans were not charmed by a Maxwell column, six weeks before the date, which remarked: "It is hard to persuade these rather timid, frightened Chicagoans to come as Rigolettos and Carmens, but I think they will see the light. . . ." Tickets went unsold at $50 a couple, then went unsold at $25. The project was sunk without a trace. Miss Maxwell's last words: "For some curious reason, which is quite inexplicable to me, apparently the public did not want...