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Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people. This...

Pitt's performance. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said, "Pitt's diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection it's a...

Playwright Robert E. Sherwood described him as "almost painfully shy ... diffident" and self-deprecating. According to his biographer Richard Schickel, Disney...

altogether good-natured (although cerebrally good-natured)." Shostakovich was diffident by nature: Flora Litvinova has said he was "completely incapable of saying...

film celebrates these types of adoration without exalting them, and the diffident types of audiophiles who move about Harriet’s universe charm their way...

Sticks Out Half a Mile. Sergeant Arthur Wilson (John Le Mesurier), a diffident, upper-middle-class chief bank clerk who often quietly questions Mainwaring's...

bases this judgement on three considerations; first Muhammad is very diffident about his own position, he accepts the Pagan tribes within the Umma, and...

that he possessed much more energy, both mental and physical, than his diffident father. Philip was idealized by his contemporaries as the model of Baroque...

"faith, trust", from fidere "to trust" confidante, confidence, confident, diffident, faith, fealty, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel, perfidious, perfidy fig-...

effort was panned by critics – one critic compared Cody's acting to a "diffident schoolboy" – but the performer was a hit with the sold-out crowds. In...

(1973) as Mr. Berry "Wally Cox, TV Mr. Peepers, Dies at 48. Diminutive and Diffident". The New York Times. February 16, 1973. Archived from the original on...

credit the notion that English administrators were partial to Arabs, and diffident about, if not outright disliking, Jews. One Zionist complaint was that...

done in the case of Julius Cæsar". More recent dictionaries are more diffident: the online edition of the OED (2021) mentions "the traditional belief...

happy disposition changed. I had been so lively and open; now I became diffident and oversensitive, crying if anyone looked at me. I was only happy if...

dogmatic and overbearing in a comic way; in more private settings he was diffident and shy except when certain of his welcome. He was punctual in his habits...

hesitancy at the dance. Tristan makes Siegfried realise he is getting too diffident, and Siegfried becomes determined to prove himself in front of his date...

sites, missing possibilities to park bikes in the city as well as rather diffident ambitions. In response, the responsible city department points to the...

town. Nina Oyama as Abby Matsuda, an excitable and enthusiastic, yet diffident, constable. Holly Austin as Skye O'Dwyer, the lesbian daughter of Victoria...

performance" with "a mixture of vulnerability and knowingness, with a diffident and offhand delivery of her lines often belying the turmoil in her eyes...

her dance moves and speech" and Agastya Nanda "likeable though a touch diffident in his timbre". Sneha Bengani of CNBC TV18 dismissed Nanda, Khan, and...