Sentence examples for diffident delivery from inspiring English sources
His diffident delivery and gentle Scottish accent were much admired.
With his surreal one-liners and diffident delivery, he invited comparisons with Steven Wright, but his offbeat humour was utterly his own - and he knew it.
Louis C. K.'s routine mostly take a wickedly scatological look at life after divorce — raising children, dating and aging — but his delivery is low key and even diffident.
Cera's line delivery is a national treasure, as he wrenches phrases from diffident silences to suggest a range of unexpressed thoughts beneath them, and Dennings speaks with a grounded intelligence that seems ready-made for the world that Woody Allen made famous.
Ms. Dennings, who is 22 the way Lauren Bacall was 19, gives Norah a laconic, wisecracking delivery so deadpan-droll and desert-dry that we half expect her to ask the diffident Nick if he knows how to whistle.
Ayoade is similarly diffident.
Consumers, however, remain diffident.
He was painfully diffident.
Paulson was cold and diffident.
