Answer:
Someone in their family getting cancer/dying and losing faith in their religion.
Explanation:
Wars, make people lose faith in humanity
So... what are some examples of being timid?
what are examples of timidness?
what are examples of the word timid?
your sentence is hard to make out, really.
according to dictionary.com, timid means;
<span><span>1. </span><span>lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery; easily alarmed; timorous; shy. </span></span><span><span>
2. </span><span><span>characterized by or indicating </span>fear: <span>a timid approach to a problem. </span> </span></span>
examples of being timid;
i can be very timid while ordering food at restaurants.
i can also be timid talking to stranger/adults
someone can be timid talking to a their crush or someone important.
someone can be timid in general and feel fear and be shy all the time. they would lack a lot of courage.
you can be timid before preforming in a play or musical.
you can be timid before showing people work you have done like art, writing or even homework, (I am scared of correcting my math homework at times)
acording the dictionary.com, some synonyms for timid are bashful, feeble and fearful. when I think of timid I think of the word shy or gentle. I would go on dictionary.com if you want more examples.
Answer:
When you say, "to swallow something hook, line, and sinker" it means to completely fall for whatever was said or to completely believe what was told or presented. Usually, what was presented is a lie, and when the person is gullible enough to believe it, the phrase applies.
The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
I hope this helped :)
