| Here, as you see me now, in tropical but dripping diffidence, I am the author of that tome. |
| His gentleness, diffidence, enthusiasm, his sense of fun, his quietly mocking spirit enslaved everyone. |
| Other children sometimes mis-interpret your little Virgo's shyness as diffidence or stand-offishness. |
| He is paid to be serious, but his default mode is loose and playful, with a touch of hipster diffidence. |
| And it hurts when we have this clumsy, plodding exchanges because he was my best friend, and now we can't seem to talk to each other without diffidence and discomfort. |
| Perhaps we need a trade union of the self-effacing, an Oscar for tentativeness and diffidence. |
