Eksempler på coyness

• Such coyness could be explained by a lack of interest in politics in favour of concentrating on music.

• As will become clear, my question-mark is not mere coyness; it signals a fundamental aspect of my historiographical orientation.

• There is some coyness on both sides about who does the writing in their respective shared enterprises.

• Even serious linguists still show occasional embarrassment or coyness in dealing with the subject, and more popular usage in the public media is distinctly self-conscious and often brash.

• He has shown an unnatural and unaccustomed coyness on the matter, and he has been sufficiently embarrassed today for me not to press him further.

• That deserves applause for coyness, though perhaps not for anything else.

• The rights were enumerated but there was a strange coyness about the responsibilities.

• There has been too much reticence, too much coyness, too much ignorance, too much stupidity, too much neglect of the nation's plainest need.