Sentence examples for diffident smile from inspiring English sources

With a diffident smile, she spoke at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, alongside Mr. Blum and her parents.

In America, Daniel Day-Lewis is glimpsed in hotel lobbies, fleeting and uncomfortable, with a diffident smile and hair to his shoulders.

He opened his first Cabinet meeting in 1990 with a diffident smile saying: 'Well, who'd have thought it?' The answer was: 'Not many.' His political career was remarkable.

In Coalition, Carvel's Clegg often tilts his head forward and looks dolefully upwards at his interlocutor with sheepish eyes before his mouth collapses into a diffident smile.

Riding on this bus, brother and sister never sat together, and had acknowledged each other only politely, with diffident smiles.

The tenderness with which Mr. Sokurov films these young soldiers with their downy necks and diffident smiles — they look at Alexandra with crushing yearning — seems proof enough of that.

On Thursday night Mr. Day's audience was full of young women who sounded eager to comfort a songwriter with tousled hair and a diffident half smile.

To begin with, he looked younger than Nola: very tall and ugly, diffident and smiling and stooped, with a long bony face and hair like crinkled pale silk.

His diffident, gap-toothed smile and generally mild demeanor strongly suggest that he's joking.

Craig Keir Gilchristt), a teenager with big eyes, a hesitant smile and a diffident, sensitive demeanor, checks into Argeron because he is spooked by thoughts of suicide.

The handsome, saturnine Shawcross, who is adorable – intense and diffident by turns – flashes me an agonised smile.