Sentence examples for some diffidence from inspiring English sources
"As with all new things, there's some diffidence," he conceded.
As for mending relations with Islam, Mr Obama decided that this required some diffidence.
The "art-making iconoclasm" that he, with some diffidence, calls Jewish - does it apply only to the visual?
This forced choice presents the same annoyances that the writer of a piece in the November 10 , 1901 edition of the Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts, precociously identified in the first-known call for a third form of address for English speakers: There is a void in the English language which, with some diffidence, we undertake to fill.
The injury done alike to the North, to the South, and to the world, is so irremediable, the consequences of the act may be so vast, and are certainly so numerous, that it is with some diffidence we attempt to point out the extent of the American loss, and the result that loss may produce.The greatness of the American loss seems to us to consist especially in this.
Zager moves gracefully, integrating perfectly into the ensemble in that sense, though his voice projected some diffidence and unease on opening night.
Some intellectuals expressed diffidence about the lavish, doting attention the Italian news media paid to the festival.
His correspondents and, later, his biographers were in an uncomfortable bind: he spoke to them, as to everyone, in "parables and in hints and in indirections," as he put it, "whether from diffidence or some other instinct".
Murray, the coolest dude in the Rose Garden alongside the guffawing PM, his normally morose sidekick Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband, who could do with a good laugh, has taken a little while to shed some of his natural diffidence.
His supporters were delighted by what they saw as his candor, yet some were troubled by the diffidence that marked his public persona.
Giamatti gets maximum value from this blend of diffidence and blurt; some of his lines could have been pinched from Samuel Beckett ("Now, there's a reliable disappointment," he says, peering in the mirror), and I decided in the end that I preferred Giamatti's wistful Harvey to the real thing.
