shyness

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Noun
  • But there’s something more to all this than just the laughs and the humility of a man who always credits everyone around him for his achievements.
    Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Yet this is a key aspect of Jackman’s charisma: a kind of sweet humility that constantly refreshes itself.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One day, a player is going to get caught out and look pretty silly, but the embarrassment/flex risk/reward assessment is clearly judged worthwhile enough to keep doing it.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025
  • We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Most disconcerting is the meekness of Washington’s supposedly stalwart European allies.
    Raphael Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2014
  • But to see Bass as a kumbaya leader — or to mistake her softness for meekness — is to fundamentally misunderstand her.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
Noun
  • Vocally, too, Jackman makes a kind of spectacle of his modesty.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Kwong’s ministrations to the interior included refurbishing portions of the existing millwork, adding a window seat in the kitchen, and renovating the kitchen and baths in a way that feels sympathetic to the modesty of the original plans.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This could be a time to release these inhibitions and accept new journeys rather than being stuck in old patterns.
    Athena Sobhan, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Lammy shed his inhibitions—and found a national platform, in the media—while his future in the Party clouded over.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Despite their differences in sociability and communication styles, cats and dogs often find ways to coexist harmoniously.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Civility leads to sociability, a concept that creates a political link between an interactive citizenry and a truly functional republic.
    Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Every staffer at every Laemmle theater reflected the friendliness and enthusiasm of their boss.
    Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The friendliness is by both circumstance and design, pervading everything.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Such cordiality was impossible this time, and Dirk Hauser — head of media for Bayern’s academy then and to this day — had to keep the two men apart, in different parts of the old stadium.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Hold on to your butts, Samuel L. Jackson is coming after awards season cordiality.
    Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Shyness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shyness. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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