‘This startling performance was followed by the even greater upheaval of 1838 when he gave an address to the Harvard Divinity School that was a religious counterpart to his trashing of scholarly timorousness and convention.’
‘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.’
‘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.’
‘His other dominant characteristic was a certain timorousness.’
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