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Examples for "diffidence "
1 There was some diffidence in Leila's expression, but not a great deal.
2 She found it impossible to look her own diffidence in the face.
3 Rosa and I shook hands in silence, and with a little diffidence .
4 I was given a chair, but we were all overcome with diffidence .
5 But in his presence a wall of diffidence and timidity encompassed her.
1 The main impulse of his life at this time was his self - distrust .
2 So faith and self - distrust are but two names for one composite whole.
3 He must not show fear, or self - distrust or self-lowering in any way.
4 His thoughts cried out for utterance, but self - distrust robbed him of courage.
5 In all parts of his life self - distrust and diffidence had marked his character.
1 A lot of guilt, a lot of self - doubt , feeling embarrassed, he said.
2 Unfamiliar with self - doubt , he didn't know how to entertain it for long.
3 Barnett combined condescension and self - doubt in a way that she found irritating.
4 But he had never encountered Obama in a moment of profound self - doubt .
5 The quandary was this: The defense attorney was suddenly shattered by self - doubt .
6 I'm fucked. A rare show of self - doubt from an otherwise shameless Don.
7 This time, he wouldn't stumble into it filled with uncertainty and self - doubt .
8 These disasters had thrust her into a pit of self - doubt and despair.
9 I had to recall that self - doubt sliced at him like hidden knives.
10 It was like living with a pint-sized advocate for his own self - doubt .
11 The root cause could be anything from self - doubt to complacency to fear.
12 A smile crept across Nicodemus's face as his self - doubt began to fade.
13 May grew annoyed with himself; self - doubt felt weak, but it expanded with age.
14 By the time we reach midlife we have accumulated enormous experience with self - doubt .
15 All you have is self - doubt because it's all new and different, that's all.'
16 Deacon was already at the door, clearly recovered from his moment of self - doubt .
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