timorously


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in a timorous and trepid manner

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By KWAMCHETSI MAKOKHAAfrica owes US President Donald Trump an apology for offending his sensibilities by looking like an open defecation zone.The continent, whose trade with the United States is estimated at $47 billion, is a repository of turds teeming timorously towards the United States like a draft of black smoke.
But, since the dollar sign had been timorously erased, they ended up with-nothing.
Timorously, he alerted his prospective hosts to the disastrous impact of the novel on his editorship, offering to let Tabor withdraw its invitation.
In the process of decodifying representations of their existential situations and perceiving former perceptions, the learners gradually, hesitatingly, and timorously place in doubt the opinion they held of reality and replace it with a more and more critical knowledge.
In a priceless example of historical detective work, not to mention a "truth is stranger than fiction" moment of investigative journalism, the authors take a carriage tour of Charleston during which the tour guide asks timorously, "Is it okay to talk about slaves?" Given the nod by his customers, the guide then launches into a skin-crawling routine in which he plays the role of slave trader, eliciting from his apparently cooperative guests their preferences in human cargo and the prices they would have fetched in 1860.
But King must have been revising that figure northwards as he watched this squad timorously under-perform once more on the back of a recent record that has seen them win just once in their last six games.
"When her father approached us, we rather timorously commiserated, but all he said was, 'Well done, daughter!'" The band respected the fact that "Rupie the Groupie", as he became known, had their backs.
He insists that all three military leaders--Bonduca, Nennius, and he--have joined their soldiers in avoiding confrontations in the past, their forces retreating more timorously than "a virgin [running] from the high sett ravisher" (1.1.87).
The pedestrian caught his breath and began to look timorously out into the snow cloud ahead ..."
Some examples are: [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], 'timorously', [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], 'with due caution', [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], 'tumultuously', and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], 'in orderly manner' (Kiihner & Blass 1983 [1892]:300).
The narrator, Isaac, speaks of his father's hand (poised to commit the violent act of sacrifice) "trembling / with the beauty of the word." And yet this picture of Abraham differs greatly from the uncouth figure of the song's early verses, a man who timorously claims that "I must do what I've been told"; who shatters a bottle of wine once he's finished with it.
He does so in favor of "the imperative of respecting the alterity of the other" through "a love that transforms the other [and] does not halt timorously at the boundary of otherness" (106).
timorously: 'I could not say that categorically, my Lord'.