1
When he stood in the doorway the painful shyness returned to her.
2
He found her alone; and, at first sight, painful shyness overwhelmed him.
3
She was an odd combination of enormous egotism and the most painful shyness.
4
The boy advanced with painful shyness, and awkwardly climbed into the place assigned him.
5
Beneath his painful shyness something was growing up within him, and obscurely he realised his personality.
6
She felt a painful shyness stealing over her and wished that David were by her side.
7
Snobbishness towards his chosen genre is partly to blame, but Wyndham's painful shyness has not helped his cause, either.
8
The abstract person of her thoughts had always inspired her with a painful shyness and an indefinite, breathless fear.
9
His face was still pimply, but it had lost its painful shyness and its readiness to blush without provocation.
10
Teenagers with social phobia often report a long history of painful shyness or social inhibition, but until their teens, they were able to cope.
11
For a moment Louis thought she would hold it, refuse to show him, and then with a painful shyness she passed it to Jud.