| My experience suggests that the lay member's views on legal questions, though diffidently expressed, can also sometimes be helpful. |
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| We came suddenly to the gate of the lodge and Locksley the caretaker greeted us diffidently in his knit hat and muddy Wellingtons. |
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| And under the quiet narration is even gentler music, music that strives to be subliminal, tinkled on a parlor piano and diffidently accompanied by a fiddle or banjo. |
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| During the course of the conversation it was suggested somewhat diffidently that I might like to join the Labour party, for whose candidates I have never failed to vote. |
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| Before his trip to Long Island he had promoted it rather diffidently to customers on his milk round. |
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| Two girls, presumably sisters, are sitting diffidently side by side. |
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| A week before election day, McCarthy diffidently suggested that Humphrey's position had come close enough to his own to make it possible for him to vote for Humphrey, and he hoped his supporters would too. |
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| The Brok report hints at this, although rather diffidently. |
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| The author too keenly feels that he has no further claims than these, and he therefore most diffidently asks for his work the indulgence of his readers. |
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