retiring

She wondered a little bit how such a delicate child - she had always been a child, all the long years that Isobel had known her - such a 'retiring' girl could have raised a woman like Nixea.

A 'retiring' disposition prevented him taking a prominent political role, but he is a good example of a late Victorian nobleman dedicated to university and municipal matters.

Mrs. Feeney must have been in a lot of pain for she was normally a 'retiring' woman noted for her kindnesses.

His tasteful interpretations never force the music into being something that it is not, and his temperament is well matched to that of the 'retiring' and modest composer.

‘You have to be fairly resilient and not too much of a shy 'retiring' type,’ explains Tamsin O'Brien, BBC Yorkshire's newly appointed Head of Programmes.

He was a very modest and 'retiring' man and he was the sort of man who, as I say in the book, was easy to forget.

Oliver's father tried mightily to bring his son out of his shy and 'retiring' shell, but the violence they saw every day in the world around them resulted in the young boy retreating even further within himself.

Toy was a quiet and 'retiring' man focused on the local church and missions.

He led a 'retiring' life, first in his native Bordeaux, then from 1870 in Paris, and until he was in his fifties he worked almost exclusively in black-and-white - in lithographs and charcoal drawings.

Mathis falls 'retiringly' into the seat opposite her.

In a white house with a green door on the outskirts of a village in the Vosges is living, almost as 'retiringly' as a hermit, a woman who only a few years ago was one of the best known, gayest and most talked-of actresses in Paris.

A newspaperman wrote in 1839 that Springfield contained "a throng of stores, taverns, and shops. .. and an agreeable assemblage of dwelling houses very neatly painted, most of them white, and situated somewhat 'retiringly' behind tasteful frontyards."