Word: timidly
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About the nicest thing that can be said about Kennedy's record on Vietnam was that--when he wasn't being a full-blown hawk--he was timid as the war grew, indecisive, and left the details to others (some of those others, like Ambassador Frederick "Fritz" Nolting in Saigon, were blind and inept; some, like McNamara, were too clever for anyone's good...
...Gomes at last sets the Christian free to live by that principle which Paul was too timid to approve: "let us continue in sin, that grace may abound." A great victory, indeed, one long sought after, and one not unworthy so great a knight of Christ as Harvard's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
...newfound zeal for the teachings of the Reverend Professor Gomes, I have written anything here which seems to the more timid of The Crimson's readers to be contrary to Christian piety or good natural sense, I can only answer that I lay no claim to being a professor of Christian morals; and thus in matters pertaining to Christian ethics, I consider that I can do no better than to take up Gomes's opinions, and follow them with enthusiasm wherever they lead...
...part of Foster's teen prophesy proved timid. She directed herself as the mother. Destiny, if not autobiography, demanded it. Not that this is the Brandy and Jodie Foster story; that would be too simple. It is more aptly an emblem of the strength, intelligence and self-awareness Jodie Foster has applied to ensure that a perishable commodity (actor) becomes a lasting presence. The movie can stand as both an artful commentary on growing up strange and a calling-card film for a director who promises much and delivers most of it. Still, reverberations from Foster's extraordinary youth pulse...
...Tatanka, a sort of 21st century Beetle -- will prove too impractical, too expensive, too weird. But the great achievement of the new California design colony is that such cars are being imagined and prototypes built. After decades of nothing but uninspired nips and tucks, of corporate blandness, of timid styling, automobile designers are being allowed to design again...