timorousness

This had been taken for timorousness, or sorrow at leaving her father.

The timorousness about taking a real role in the battle is even sadder.

Presently, impatient of his own timorousness, he turned the device off again.

Or - the police brass were paralyzed by their own inefficiency and timorousness.

The exceptions to presidential timorousness are not likely to encourage outspokeness.

To some, this sexual timorousness may seem odd.

And besides, he's a gentle person and shy almost to the point of timorousness."

By then he had had enough of stammering insipidity and timorousness.

McCoy saw an animal scurry through the tall grass with the tiny timorousness of a mouse.

Lydia, however, knew that it was not strength, but vulnerability and timorousness, which led to the formation of a carapace.

The Virgo sign is the Virgin, she represents practicality, and timorousness.

NATO's new step is bold only by comparison with the timorousness of past reactions.

My life's ration of anxiety, dread, timorousness, and terror, all was consumed before I had a beard to shave.

Who or what is it that fills you with such timorousness and mistrust, that you are almost turning back from the way to life altogether?

The others, however, came filtering back as they perceived that there was to be no warfare and as cupidity overcame their timorousness.

The timorousness of 'perhaps'.

Useful as Naitachal found the Paladin's attitude, he sometimes wanted to strangle the man out of sheer frustration at his timorousness.

"Greatly did I fear for thee, yet such timorousness ill beseemed one who knoweth thee so well.

This hint of timorousness is confirmed in the next passage, told from Benjamin's point of view as he gazes down his torso at Kay.

He despised the nobility and considered all noblemen secret adherents of serfdom, who did not express themselves only out of timorousness.

Barefoot was a collection of essays from his early days, jabbing every social stupidity from breast worship to the timorousness of husbands.

I perceived in me a timorousness; I knew, however, I had not injured the man, but assisted in taking care of him according to my capacity.

There was no timorousness on Wednesday, as 30 people sat around a U-shaped set of tables at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Porter, enraged by Butler's timorousness, went to U. S. Grant and demanded that Butler be removed.

"I had to assume that the display of timorousness would continue for some time," he said, so he began studying law at the University of Pennsylvania last year.