Sentence examples for diffidence about from inspiring English sources
"diffidence about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means a lack of confidence or hesitation in one's beliefs or actions. Example: Despite her expertise in the subject matter, the new teacher couldn't shake off her diffidence about public speaking and often stumbled over her words during lectures.
Partly because of diffidence about its hereditary members, the current House of Lords rarely exercises its full powers.
He has little diffidence about his work, and enjoys talking about it to the layman.
There is also a diffidence about Lillian that makes her the right mistress for this ladykilling but secretly gay man.
I wouldn't say he's given up but there was a strange diffidence about him in the last game.
Some intellectuals expressed diffidence about the lavish, doting attention the Italian news media paid to the festival.
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.
During the meal she revealed a sharp intelligence, marked with self-deprecating diffidence ("I know nothing about anything"), a remarkable memory for names and literary quotes, and a facility for telling anecdotes larded with perfectly recalled detail and dialogue.
But Bill Frist of Tennessee will now lead the United States Senate next year, and his diffidence says a great deal about why his Republican colleagues pulled him from backstage.
There's a cocktail of swagger and reserve about Neilson, of diffidence and defiance, of the teenager and the wise old man.
Instead they are, with due diffidence, to be offered a view about epistemology, and a view about ethics.
Armed with this knowledge and somehow free of the fashionable diffidence that too often plagues fiction about the workplace, he has written a rich, thrilling book that is both love letter to and epitaph for the newspaper world.
