Another reason for my diffidence has occurred within the last few days.
It increases my feeling of diffidence about not having heard all his speech.
I speak with a certain amount of diffidence although perhaps with greater feeling than anyone who has spoken.
He always speaks with great diffidence about a subject about which he has intimate knowledge.
I think this difficulty derives not at all from evasiveness on the part of the composer but instead serves an accurate measure of the diffidence such distinction imposes.
Natural diffidence, or an attitude inherited from an earlier teacher, may be responsible - but all students, whatever their potential, come to a conservatoire harbouring the desire to be successful players.
Some general practitioners perhaps feel a similar diffidence in relation to the hospital consultant.
In fact, they displayed a diffidence that, at its extreme, actually pushed some rioters into seeking formal authorization for their protests.
