The defence minister, A.K. Antony of the Congress Party, usually a shrinking violet, refused.

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His game-winning score that night should go some distance toward ending his reputation as a shrinking violet who gets pouty under distress.

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"She doesn't strike me as a shrinking violet, " Rhodebeck said.

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