| Chaos was beginning to overtake the townships, as children, outraged by the timorousness of their parents, seized the initiative themselves. |
| But Hobbes did take both scepticism and philosophy seriously, and there was a kind of courage in his doing so which far outweighed his famous personal timorousness. |
| For most of us, time, timorousness, inexperience, or institutional policy constrains such efforts. |
| Europeans respond that it is not a question of timorousness, merely of a different point of view. |
| I note that she herself falls short of recommending specific books or topics, and thus can be accused of the same timorousness that she ascribes to the text writers. |
| His other dominant characteristic was a certain timorousness. |
