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«Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.»
Author: Anthony Trollope
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as yet, awkward, blush, gait, hobbledehoy, limbs, meetings, penance, shy, straggling, ungainly, ungraceful, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving
«What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, information, and abilities. No wonder, then, that most people are so shy of praising anything.»
«They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.»
Author: Izabella Scorupco
(Actress)
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In My Head, obviously, shy, shyest, sitting, table, Too Shy, under-the-table
«The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.»
«What we provide is an atmosphere. of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.»
Author: Meyer Davis
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Debs, dowager, dowagers, hell raising, kick off, orchestrated, orchestrating, pulse, raise hell, raising hell, severe, shy, subliminal, wholesome
«The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.»
«The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, eI was a solitary, shy, priggish youth. I had no experience of the social pleasures of boyhood and did not miss them. But I liked mathematics, and mathematics was suspect because it has n»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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boyhood, deep-seated, excitement, priggish, seated, shy, The Social
«There are truths that are singularly shy and ticklish and cannot be caught except suddenly -- that must be surprised or left alone.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
shy, singularly, ticklish, Too Shy
«To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by: But when he's gone, read through what's writ, And never stain a cheek for it»
«The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.»
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