Примеры diffident

• Even those who would have liked fewer children were too diffident to discuss birth control with their husbands.

• Merciless to small absurdities, he was often oblique and diffident on the big issues.

• No one in positions of authority uses the diffident declarative.

• Table 2), but feel less diffident about asking for lifts from family members, seeking out community transport or even using taxis, despite the expense.

• On the other hand, he is diffident towards attempts to minimise the death toll involved (p. 175) or to play down political responsibilities.

• Some of the members were in favour of retention, arguing that religion could have beneficial effects on young soldiers, and that compulsion assisted those who were diffident about their faith.

• Their men meanwhile have their eyes roving slightly diverted, inward looking concentrating on what is happening, or, exchanging glances as if slightly diffident to the whole process.

• This has a diffident and whimsical character, portrayed on a larger scale too by the music's inability actually to get anywhere (it keeps on returning to its opening gesture).

• He appears, by turn, charming and paranoiac, generous and ambitious, diffident and scheming, humorous and disappointed (one is tempted to say, rather like the rest of us).

• One almost feels diffident about creeping into one's tailor's establishment to get a patch put on a favourite garment.

• Those who are present are diffident in coming forward to give their encomiums above the coffin.

• The diffident way in which that possibility was inserted into the debate was touching.

• The only trouble is that it makes somebody like myself pretty diffident about getting on to his feet at all.

• We are diffident about making arrangements which appear to benefit us.

• I am diffident enough to suggest that journalists have rights.