Sentence examples for with some diffidence from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

Zager moves gracefully, integrating perfectly into the ensemble in that sense, though his voice projected some diffidence and unease on opening night.

But all of the interviewees were very willing to share their experiences after overcoming some diffidence at the beginning of the interview, and talked openly about their lives with the disease.

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.

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

The e-mails and letters that emanated from Royston blended formality with faux diffidence.

Instead they are, with due diffidence, to be offered a view about epistemology, and a view about ethics.