-
Shyness (also
called diffidence) is the
feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or
awkwardness especially when a
person is
around other people. This...
- accidit, ****ent quae non intellegunt." [Yet
students must
pronounce with
diffidence and cir****spection on the
merits of such
illustrious characters, lest...
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States before the
removals were to commence: It is with
considerable diffidence that I
attempt to
address the
American people,
knowing and
feeling sensibly...
-
approaches the idea that there's a
price that must be paid with a
shrugging diffidence rather than
impending doom. It's such an
underwhelming conclusion to a...
- that she "gives us a
portrait of
raging want
beneath a
veneer of
surface diffidence". In the 1939-set ****ball
comedy Miss
Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Adams...
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became very close, with Philip's
tendency towards underconfidence and
diffidence counteracted by Olivares'
drive and determination.
Olivares rapidly became...
- the
symptoms of
mercury poisoning,
which include excessive timidity,
diffidence,
increasing shyness, loss of self-confidence, anxiety, and a
desire to...
- as Newman's "soft, spectacled,
Oxford manner, with its half-effeminate
diffidence".
Geoffrey Faber,
whose own
account of
Newman in
Oxford Apostles was far...
- confident, confidential, confidentiality, defiance, defiant, defy, diffide,
diffidence, diffident, faith, feal, fealty, fiancé, fiancée, fidelity, fiducial,...
- role is underwritten, but her
performance is
expert enough to make even
diffidence compelling." Wolf was a
commercial success,
grossing US$65 million (equivalent...
