Sentence examples for slightly diffident from inspiring English sources

He's neat, casual, clearly driven, friendly yet slightly diffident.

In parliament, Rendel cut a slightly diffident figure.

He is slightly diffident, very human in his weaknesses, observant and well read.

There was a matter-of-fact briskness to the first movement and a sweet, but slightly diffident lightness to the andante.

She almost fatally mistakes a butcher for a handsome prince, but all turns out well when a slightly diffident boar named Rodney intervenes to save her bacon.

But I do see now that it's precisely this uncompromising, slightly diffident yet absolutely unapologetic intelligence that I've come to find most seductive about her work.

The diffident, slightly formal, almost stilted diction in these passages is a hallmark of Banks's prose style.

Tall and gangly, diffident and slightly injured, the 63-year-old actor who was the greatest Hamlet of my lifetime has had a busy but decidedly chequered career since he moved to Hollywood in 1987.

In striking contrast to the slightly built, softly spoken, diffident people around him, Eddie is of solid build, with a distinct, though not excessive, paunch and an air of authority.

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.

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1996 for the latter novel, he has always cut a figure in the book trade that's modest, diffident, reclusive, and slightly old-fashioned.