Sentence examples for with diffidence from inspiring English sources

The other new Korean car on the block, the Kia Optima, also displays its virtues with diffidence.

Humour in music is a subject to be approached with diffidence because the language of music ultimately eludes translation into verbal concepts.

"Just when you thought I might be going downhill," he says with diffidence, "I have matured a little bit in the past five years".

He got just as much out of Brooks Bowman's "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)," though in that case he heeded a steady buildup, opening with diffidence and closing with crashing force.

With his crooked smile, reedy physique and improbably deep voice, Mr. Gordon-Levitt camouflages his magnetism with diffidence, much as Ms. Deschanel uses her slightly spacey, vaguely melancholy affect to magnify the charm she is pretending to disguise.

Laparoscopic approach to the elderly patients is often considered with diffidence, but it is in this field that mininvasive surgery gives best results.

President Bush's call to arms met with similar diffidence across the region, with governments from Damascus to Cairo to Riyadh moving with unusual speed to distance themselves from any American attack on Iraq.

With numb diffidence, he agrees to go into business with JoJo's husband, Ben Dustin Hoffmann), who sells commercial real estate and who promptly has "Floss and Son" painted on the sign overhanging his storefront office.

After a stay at a ridiculous health spa, Guido retreats with elegant diffidence to a handsome hotel to take meetings with producers and interested parties: weird, almost hallucinatory exchanges that look more like the encounters from Last Year at Marienbad or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

After arriving at the dilapidated Tuileries Palace, abandoned since the reign of Louis XIV, he was asked for his orders and he replied with uncharacteristic diffidence, "Let everyone put himself where he pleases!" Then, with a sullen poignancy, he asked for a history of the deposed Charles I of England to be brought from the library.

"Bob Goreham," he adds, with a diffidence he surely intends to be charming.