Sentence examples for diffident air from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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".

(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.

Mr. Clooney's gravelly whisper and diffident, ironical air make him a natural heir to the tradition, and many of his roles — in "Syriana," in "Michael Clayton" and even last year in "Up in the Air" — are variations on the strong, silent archetype.

Instead she claims intimacy by polite assault, with a big, bright belter's voice and an air that, however diffident, is the essence of hard-sell showbiz.

She instead claims intimacy by polite assault, with a big, bright belter's voice and an air that, however diffident, is the essence of hard-sell showbiz.

He rocked up in Kolkata and Cairo with his trademark inquisitive expression and that peculiar patrician air – at once diffident and superior – and conducted awkward conversations with the locals, like some well-meaning but only half-curious tourist.

In person, Mr. Sorokin is diffident and thoughtful; a former stutterer, he releases words into the air around him as carefully as a cashier counting out change.