Sentence examples for a diffident air from inspiring English sources

As the theater-smitten Cioffi, who winds up solving the show's artistic problems as well as the murders, this elegantly understated comic makes captivating use of a Boston accent, a diffident air and the instinctive, razor-edge timing he honed on the sitcom "Frasier".

As played by Hall, Charlotte is a mix of ingenuousness and coquetry, a femme fatale with a very diffident air.

(More tar, more feathers!) Too often it has a diffident, distracted air.

But Mr. Makishi, a slightly built man with a dancer's compact body and a diffident, friendly air, seems undaunted.

Maguire is very good as Carraway, with that affable, principled, mildly diffident air he has come to specialise in.

Mellman, who is thirty-four, has the innocent face, diffident air, and slightly bewildered expression of someone who has spent long hours at the piano since childhood.

This novel is a diffident act of commemoration, necessarily incomplete.

I bet he was a diffident evangelist.

Mr. Gandhi has always come across as a diffident politician.

Hindman was an excellent administrator but a diffident battlefield commander.

THE mayor, finally, makes for a diffident diplomat.