What is "shies away from"

Usage examples of "shies away from".

Doc shies away from women like a race horse startled by a flying piece of paper!

LJC: His basic thesis is that the American writer shies away from the presentation of adult heterosexual love, that he tends to sublimate this in a number of forms -- say, in a suppressed homosexuality in Huckleberry Finn.

He creates fantasies of rescuing her, but always shies away from what he’.

Instead, like Poe, he shies away from it, and makes a non-transcendent substitution.

Rochelle shies away from expressing overt sexual behavior between the two males, while maintaining a clear and believable tension that belies the physical undercurrents—.

He's not bothered about publicity, more than likely shies away from it.

Or rather the brilliancy of the morning sun seeks me, but it shies away from you.