| Perhaps we need a trade union of the self-effacing, an Oscar for tentativeness and diffidence. |
| His gentleness, diffidence, enthusiasm, his sense of fun, his quietly mocking spirit enslaved everyone. |
| Present migration policies have only increased irregularity, trafficking, marginalization, social tension, diffidence and racism. |
| Here, as you see me now, in tropical but dripping diffidence, I am the author of that tome. |
| Another shortcoming of the book is Atkinson's diffidence in examining the role of an airmobile division, the Army's only one. |
| It is with diffidence and humility that I greet the ultimate constitutional power in the Republic, the Presidential electors. |
