Timorous

showing or suffering from nervousness or a lack of confidence; easily frightened; lacking courage

Kati ᐰ πŸ––πŸΌπŸ

Kati ᐰ πŸ––πŸΌπŸ

@keet67.bsky.social

But if thou needs wilt hunt, be ruled by me;
Uncouple at the timorous flying hare,
Or at the fox which lives by subtlety,
Or at the roe which no encounter dare:
Venus and Adonis
#ShakespeareSunday

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MobiQuotes

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

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@jkavanagh.bsky.social

Take note, timorous mainstream media: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations," wrote the peerless journalist George Orwell, who died on this day in 1950.

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