Sentence examples for certain diffidence from inspiring English sources

Mr. Armstrong seemed a conservative choice for the Whitney, and on his appointment he expressed a certain diffidence about his credentials as a promoter of recent American art.

But there is a certain diffidence about me, not very obvious socially, to my own mind, that prevents me from going all out, as you call it.

During the war, he was evacuated to Canada for five years, an experience that may have developed his outsider's eye and a certain diffidence.

In one of the early letters, written in 1948, after Bellow had published two novels, he writes to David Bazelon: There is a certain diffidence about me, not very obvious socially, to my own mind, that prevents me from going all out, as you call it.

He had the pleasing smell of a man who smokes, and an air of a certain diffidence, of a natural aristocratic dignity; and he was, I realize now, the first teacher I ever had who was at home in literature, for he was himself a part of it.

Another common strain in much of the theorizing about conceptual representation has been a certain diffidence concerning logical representations and denotational semantics.

A co-organiser of the famous 1936 Surrealism exhibition in London, self-educated Gascoyne moved in literary and artistic circles with a certain charming diffidence born of precarious sexuality and finances – and persistent recourse to off-the-shelf Benzedrine.

Behind Mollie's invariable good manners and politesse, however, there was a certain concealed diffidence....Mollie...was a completely domesticated reporter, living in an Elizabethan house in Surrey with a husband, daughters, dogs, stacks and stacks of books, and a ravishing garden.

It has to be admitted that in some respects the liberal is fundamentally a skeptic -- but it seems to require a certain degree of diffidence to let others seek their happiness in their own fashion and to adhere consistently to that tolerance which is an essential characteristic of liberalism".

I'm supposed to be thinking Everything's all right I'm supposed to be thinking about the rest of my life   All these steps I'm taking Pictures of my family That's what Margaret says When she talks to me We have, again, musical diffidence, a certain fatalism in the singing, but it's not born of arrogance, just naturalism.

I'm supposed to be thinking Everything's all right I'm supposed to be thinking about the rest of my life All these steps I'm taking Pictures of my family That's what Margaret says When she talks to me We have, again, musical diffidence, a certain fatalism in the singing, but it's not born of arrogance, just naturalism.