Sentence examples for cold and diffident from inspiring English sources

Paulson was cold and diffident.

"Why are you so afraid to surrender to passion?" And again, "I have to make you mine, completely mine, no matter how cold and diffident you are".

Draves is tall and bald and diffident.

He was shy and diffident, mostly silent.

Dunagan is poised, eloquent and diffident.

Her Andrée astonishes the sweet-faced and diffident young Jean.

DEFEATIST dons and diffident vice-chancellors are still tiresome fixtures of the British university scene.

In contrast with Albert's bonhomie, Philippe seems shy and diffident.

His debate performances tend toward the erratic, authoritative one moment, defensive and diffident the next.

Soering said Reid seemed "a little shy and diffident," something he appreciated.

Someone at once both precocious and diffident, she is eager to please but also to subvert.