shynesses

“I saw him an overworked boy, starving for books, hungry for school, loathing the land and tied to it until he was twenty-one,” wrote Pearl, who came in the end to understand better than anyone except her mother the inner furies that scourged Absalom, “his austerities, his shynesses, his fires so deep and so strangely banked, the powerful mystic motive of his life.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

“I saw him an overworked boy, starving for books, hungry for school, loathing the land and tied to it until he was twenty-one,” wrote Pearl, who came in the end to understand better than anyone except her mother the inner furies that scourged Absalom, “his austerities, his shynesses, his fires so deep and so strangely banked, the powerful mystic motive of his life.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

“He was an impresario of writers and books,” she wrote long afterward, “but a man of such tender understanding of the needs and delicacies and shynesses of talented persons that he guided without seeming to do so…. he never seemed to lead although he did not follow, he uncovered without shaping.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

“He was an impresario of writers and books,” she wrote long afterward, “but a man of such tender understanding of the needs and delicacies and shynesses of talented persons that he guided without seeming to do so…. he never seemed to lead although he did not follow, he uncovered without shaping.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

I will allow you those; and also some little natural shynesses — and so you shall not come down, if you chuse not to come down.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

“For anyone with a stutter,” he once remarked, “the shynesses of youth are magnified out of all proportion.”

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

“For anyone with a stutter,” he once remarked, “the shynesses of youth are magnified out of all proportion.”

Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

I think they were all easterners, and this would explain away certain characteristic shynesses of temper and of expression in them.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

Oh, the long hours that pass like a flash in delightful talk, the secrets that the soul first reveals to itself in revealing them to the beloved, the caresses longed for and yet half feared, the lovers 'quarrels, the tears that are kissed away, the shynesses, the simplicity, the abandonment of a pure and passionate love -- who may hope to know you twice in a lifetime?

Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian Various

They have outlived the shynesses and restraints of girlhood, and not attained to the caution and discretion of middle age.

Dangerous Ages Rose Macaulay 1919