Word: timidness
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...sense of self is at-risk. "Not only is society saying, 'We don't want you to exercise [your profession] anymore,' it's saying, 'We actually don't value [your profession] anymore,'" Morgan says. The result can be a reduced sense of self-worth. Former bank employees may be timid about telling people what they do - or did. "Overnight, [people who worked in banks] have been placed in that second-hand car salesman category," says Morgan. To cope with these feelings, many out-of-work bankers and traders are heading to their health clubs to fill their time, work...
...Yorker, immediately takes to Sara, a schoolteacher from St. Louis, but the initial dynamic is one of friendship. As Callie helps Sara adjust to life in New York, going out to restaurants and sharing laughs over beers, an undercurrent of sexual tension becomes evident. Both women, unsure and timid about the attraction they feel, avoid the topic and keep up the pretense of being “just friends.”The script, which flips between two sets (Callie’s apartment and a hospital bed) and two distinct moments in time, shows the two ends...
...confident. This also bodes ill. Women have self-esteem issues. But they also have other-women's-esteem issues. As almost any woman - from the head of the Budgerigar Breeders association to Queen Elizabeth - can attest, it's almost impossible to get confidence right. Too timid and you're a pushover. Too self-aggrandizing and you're a bad word unless it's about a dog, or Project Runway's Kenley. Or Michelle, my best friend until 9th grade, after she won that debating prize and got cocky...
...Southern Window was effectively firing the opening salvo in a debate that started the minute the closing ceremony's last firework exploded: What now for China? Will Party hard-liners, emboldened by the world's timid response to their heavy-handed pre-Games crackdown on dissent, continue to tighten their grip on power? Or will the spirit of civic activism that arose from relief efforts after the May earthquake in Sichuan be revived? Could reform-minded Party officials - like those who approved the publication of Southern Window's special issue - gain ground in their drive to ease control over areas...
...magazine's editors have fired an opening shot in a debate that started the moment the closing ceremony's last firework exploded: What now for China? Will party hardliners, emboldened by the world's timid response to their brutal pre-Games crackdown on dissent, continue to tighten their grip on power? Or will the spirit of volunteerism and community that arose after the May earthquake in Sichuan be revived? Could reform-minded party officials - like those who approved the publication of Southern Window's special issue - gain ground in their drive to loosen control over areas such as the courts...