"There's something else," she said, through painful shyness.

Gregor's apparent Imperial sternness hid an almost painful personal shyness.

Beneath his painful shyness something was growing up within him, and obscurely he realised his personality.

He said he considered Crutchfield a father figure, someone who stressed education, taught him how to throw a football and helped him begin to overcome painful shyness.

"My mom thought it was an opportunity for me to get over what was a painful shyness when I was young," Ms. Smith explained.

Although the children were unfailingly charming and polite, their curiosity about outsiders warred visibly with a painful shyness.

With a painful shyness he-to my astonishment asked me if I would care to join in a game of football!

M-M-M," she began, and at once I understood her silence and her painful shyness.

For a moment Louis thought she would hold it, refuse to show him, and then with a painful shyness she passed it to Jud.

Ayshen was a k'Leshyahertasi , and did not suffer from the painful shyness shared by all of the Pelagirshertasi , including his mate.