Significados de painful shyness em inglês

When he stood in the doorway the painful shyness returned to her.

He found her alone; and, at first sight, painful shyness overwhelmed him.

She was an odd combination of enormous egotism and the most painful shyness.

The boy advanced with painful shyness, and awkwardly climbed into the place assigned him.

Beneath his painful shyness something was growing up within him, and obscurely he realised his personality.

She felt a painful shyness stealing over her and wished that David were by her side.

Snobbishness towards his chosen genre is partly to blame, but Wyndham's painful shyness has not helped his cause, either.

The abstract person of her thoughts had always inspired her with a painful shyness and an indefinite, breathless fear.

His face was still pimply, but it had lost its painful shyness and its readiness to blush without provocation.

Teenagers with social phobia often report a long history of painful shyness or social inhibition, but until their teens, they were able to cope.

For a moment Louis thought she would hold it, refuse to show him, and then with a painful shyness she passed it to Jud.