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But few will fail to join in the familiar battlecry of her hedonism: "Away with hypocrisies, timidities, doubts!"

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.

From Time Magazine Archive

This culmination of a series of sentimental and financial timidities seemed to me to indicate that the Board was not acting fearlessly for the best interests of the students.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only a combination of great disasters, great stupidities, great timidities could ever allow war to come so close to U.S. shores.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were silences that caused wonderings, punishments that were not understood, prohibitions which built up timidities, over a long zigzag trail of unrest and fear through childhood up to maturity.

From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)