Timidity is counterproductive, because it backfires.

His mildness came to be dismissed as timidity, his unflappable manner excoriated as complacency and ineffectiveness.

On that day, we made light of our political differences and approached our intellectual arguments with some timidity.

And this problem was compounded by the timidity of in country United Nations officials in communicating such information as they had.

But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the color revolution route to democracy that other post Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform does not justify isolation.

Other obstacles include early motherhood and early marriage, which put a premature end to girls' sporting careers an insufficient sporting infrastructure in general timidity on the part of young girls and the lack of adequate resources for families.

Rural women's low level of participation in decision making both within the family and in society stems mainly from sociocultural inhibitions and attitudes, a lack of civic and economic education, a lack of financial resources, passivity and timidity on the part of women and the excessive demands on their time owing to their multiple roles as mothers, wives and agents of development.