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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...
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Playwright Robert E.
Sherwood described him as "almost
painfully shy ...
diffident" and self-deprecating.
According to his
biographer Richard Schickel, Disney...
- 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...
- sites,
missing possibilities to park
bikes in the city as well as
rather diffident ambitions. In response, the
responsible city
department points to the...
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Times wrote in 1989 "The then
unknown Peter O'Toole, with his
charmingly diffident manner and his hair and eyes
looking unnaturally gold and blue, accounted...
- routine, but Jones's
offbeat and
streamlined performance as a
proudly diffident [sic]
investigator helps one
overlook the
mechanical crosscutting and...
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brown hair and
rather large front teeth.
Neville Longbottom is a plump,
diffident boy, so
forgetful that his
grandmother gives him a Remembrall, to remind...
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Jhunjhunwala of Scroll.in stated, "Agastya
Nanda is
likeable though a
touch diffident in his timbre.
Unlike some of his peers, he
appears to have made an effort...
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sportswriter for
Newsday living with his
family on Long Island.
Beleaguered and
diffident yet
dryly sarcastic, Ray
takes few
things seriously,
making jokes in most...
- and his
manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too
diffident to do
justice to himself; but when his
natural shyness was overcome, his...
