Being shy can have its advantages as well, according to Thomas Benton in his article " Shyness and Academe ", published in May 2004.

Being shy and mocked because of his grandfather, he appears to have been miserable at school.

Being a shy person, he seems incapable of defining what he really feels for each of them, creating a tense love triangle that became as interesting and essential to the Macross story as the mecha battles and action sequences amid the alien-human apocalyptic war.

The book The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is about a young boy, named Charlie, who is a shy, awkward high school freshman.

Being a ' girly girl ' can then be seen as a fluid and partially embodied position-a form of discourse taken up, discarded or modified for tactical / strategic ends.

Being generous, Karna told the girl that he would give her some new ghee.

Being the same age as his students, Adam finds himself trapped between two worlds – coping with his co-workers, who happen to be twice his age, while teaching his best friend, the girl he has a crush on, and the class bully.

Being a demon girl, Reiko bears many unusual physical characteristics including: large pointed ears, unusually long arms, red eyes, a forked tongue, and horns concealed beneath her bangs.

Being Eve is a television series from New Zealand, originally shown on TV3 from 2001 – 2002, and rebroadcast on The N. Being Eve focused on a teenage girl, Eve Baxter, and her daily problems.

Being a Northern girl it was always on in my living room.

Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Being now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

The GLF ’ s " A Gay Manifesto " set out the aims for the fledgling gay liberation movement, and influential intellectual Paul Goodman published “ The Politics of Being Queer ” ( 1969 ).

Being separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.

Milan Kundera set his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being during the Prague Spring.

Being thus secure in Rome and the surrounding country, he next set himself to oust the Republic of Venice from Faenza, Rimini, and the other towns and fortresses of Italy which it occupied after the death of Pope Alexander.

Being separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.

*" Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover Being upon the Sea " set to music From the 1990 concept album “ Tyger and Other Tales ”

: There lived a singer in France of oldBy the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and goldThere shone one woman, and none but she. And finding life for her love ’ s sake fail, Being fain to see her, he bade set sail, Touched land, and saw her as life grew cold, And praised God, seeing ; and so died he.

Being asked about the supposed split, Ashcroft told The Daily Telegraph, " I can confirm we did what we set out to do [...] Right now there are no plans to be doing anything in the near future.

Being a symbol of the power and authority of a legislative assembly, a precedent was set in 2002 as to the severity of acts of disrespect toward the mace in Canada and, by proxy, the monarch.

* Being able to set goals / agendas

: Being in sympathy with the purposes of this Lodge, as set forth in its " Declaration ," I hereby record my desire to be enrolled as an Associate, it being understood that such association calls for no obligation on my part, other than that which I, myself, determine.

Being homotopic is an equivalence relation on the set of all continuous functions from X to Y.

His next film, Days of Being Wild ( 1990 ), produced by Alan Tang, a drama about aimless youth set in the early 1960s, established his trademark form: elliptically plotted mood pieces, with lush visuals and music, about the burden of memory on melancholic, misfit characters.

Wong had already set his breakthrough film, Days of Being Wild, in that time in Hong Kong, when mainland-born Chinese and their memories, including those of Wong, then a young child, had a strong presence in the territory.

In other words, the First Heaven, attracted by the desirability of the Supreme Being " as the soul is attracted by beauty ", was set in motion, and imparted its motion to the lower spheres and thus, ultimately, to our terrestrial world.

Being first set in type in Venice in 1482, it is one of the very earliest mathematical works to be printed after the invention of the printing press and was estimated by Carl Benjamin Boyer to be second only to the Bible in the number of editions published, with the number reaching well over one thousand.

Being Human Foundation is a registered charitable trust set up by Salman Khan for helping the cause of the underprivileged.

As the revolution became more radical, the new state and its leaders set up its own rival deities and religion, a Cult of Reason and, later, a deistic cult of the Supreme Being, closing many Catholic churches, transforming cathedrals into " temples of reason ", disbanding monasteries and often destroying their buildings ( as at Cluny ), and seizing their lands.

The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published on July 5, 1904, is the second of L. Frank Baum's books set in the Land of Oz, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Being an independent Scottish party also drew electoral appeal when set against the threat of a London-based centralising British Labour party.

Being nominally independent it was possible to set up a casino which was done in the early 1980s, staffed in the main by British workers.

Being well known in Zürich, Grebel left the work to others and set out on an evangelistic mission to the surrounding cities.

Being film and art school students, they were able to use the darkroom at the Royal College of Art, but when they completed school, they had to set up their own facilities.

Being unsatisfied with the Answer, they set about finding the Question which would give the Answer meaning, whereupon Deep Thought designed the Earth, to calculate it.