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Meanings of painful shyness in anglès

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Usage of painful shyness in anglès
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When he stood in the doorway the painful shyness returned to her.
The Call of the Blood
2
He found her alone; and, at first sight, painful shyness overwhelmed him.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
3
She was an odd combination of enormous egotism and the most painful shyness.
The Butterfly House
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The boy advanced with painful shyness, and awkwardly climbed into the place assigned him.
Baldy of Nome
5
Beneath his painful shyness something was growing up within him, and obscurely he realised his personality.
Of Human Bondage
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She felt a painful shyness stealing over her and wished that David were by her side.
Marcia Schuyler
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Snobbishness towards his chosen genre is partly to blame, but Wyndham's painful shyness has not helped his cause, either.
The Guardian
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The abstract person of her thoughts had always inspired her with a painful shyness and an indefinite, breathless fear.
Barlasch of the Guard
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His face was still pimply, but it had lost its painful shyness and its readiness to blush without provocation.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Teenagers with social phobia often report a long history of painful shyness or social inhibition, but until their teens, they were able to cope.
It's nobody's fault: new hope and help for difficult children an...
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For a moment Louis thought she would hold it, refuse to show him, and then with a painful shyness she passed it to Jud.
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