Sentence examples for the diffidence of from inspiring English sources
The sad songs make the laughter brighter by revealing how merriment can camouflage the diffidence of a wounded dreamer.
He addresses the world through clear-framed spectacles and with the diffidence of a grad student; he carries his credit cards bundled together by a rubber band.
Girls are often socialized to be people-pleasers; perhaps it is the diffidence of the cat, its refusal to play nice, that strikes their fancy.
Even after her plays had been performed in Moscow and St .Petersburg, after she won an international residency in London, she had the diffidence of a neophyte, friends said.
Joby has a gentle side, but he clearly has no idea how to talk to a child, and Shaylena, a nonprofessional with wide eyes and a charmingly serious manner, credibly conveys the diffidence of a young person unsure of what to make of her adult companion.
The recent news that SnapChat was revealing user names and phone numbers – and the diffidence of the company's founder, who had to be prodded before he seemed to care – is only the most recent example of the industry's casual attitude in this arena.
I don't know if he sensed the diffidence on my part — no, of course he did; he never missed anything — but he set me instantly at ease, and so began one of the great friendships and benisons of my life.
After having diagnosed the "vitiating diffidence" of the nation's less ambitious authors, Vidal presumed to articulate a mission statement in their voice, which went, in part: "We don't know very much….
He deserves all-out support from journalists, not the mumbling diffidence of the New York Times that published his revelations while abandoning their source.
Cycling through half a dozen in an hour, he accepted the greetings of gallery owners and patrons with the practiced diffidence of a visiting celebrity, pausing only briefly to ask the price of a hyperrealist painting of a Duncan yo-yo, by an artist named Kyle Surges.
His deep Englishness -- the glum stoicism of his face, the stiff diffidence of his posture -- works best when it seems put on, revealing what a sly comedian he can be.
