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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...
- performance" with "a
mixture of
vulnerability and knowingness, with a
diffident and
offhand delivery of her
lines often belying the
turmoil in her eyes...
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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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altogether good-natured (although
cerebrally good-natured)."
Shostakovich was
diffident by nature:
Flora Litvinova has said he was "completely
incapable of saying...
- Smelling of gold and
blood and flame. And he
paced our
bricks with a
diffident air, And
built his
frame on the
courthouse square. [...] And innocent...
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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...
- 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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bases this
judgement on
three considerations;
first Muhammad is very
diffident about his own position, he
accepts the
Pagan tribes within the Umma, and...
