Does he open up or does he become defensive, diffident, or uncomfortable?
Trouble is, no matter how accomplished he becomes, Grint seems too diffident, too nice, to front a group.
As the days stretch into weeks, he becomes something of a neighborhood character, a benign, eccentric presence whose watchful, diffident manner arouses sympathy and mild curiosity from other habitués of the area.
A sceptical American general (James Gandolfini) looms large, as does a new, diffident British minister (Tom Hollander) who's packed off to Washington DC, where he becomes a pawn for the opponents of the conflict.
It stars Tom Hollander as a diffident, gaffe-prone British minister who is packed off to Washington DC, where he becomes a pawn in the political opposition to the war.
HAVE you noticed how poorly the New York Yankees have been doing since their self-proclaimed No. 1 fan, the mayor, cast off his mantle of invincibility and became the diffident, love-is-all-you-need fellow we now see?
Though the very next day Cuvier retracted, Lyell reported only the dismissal to Mantell, who became rather diffident about the issue.
He eventually became reconciled with the Abbeyfield Society, and though he published two volumes of autobiography and accepted honours and awards - including an OBE - Carr-Gomm seemed, in his mid-eighties, increasingly diffident and even humble about his work, as though it represented no great achievement.
"You're the reason I do this job", I say to Richard Eyre as our time together draws to a close and the man who spoke for effusive minutes about the BBC becomes charmingly diffident.
