| It is with diffidence and humility that I greet the ultimate constitutional power in the Republic, the Presidential electors. |
| Was the miners' apparent diffidence at the event motivated by political considerations? |
| So I think with some reluctance, with some diffidence, I come down on the positive side of the question. |
| Other children sometimes mis-interpret your little Virgo's shyness as diffidence or stand-offishness. |
| His gentleness, diffidence, enthusiasm, his sense of fun, his quietly mocking spirit enslaved everyone. |
| Here, as you see me now, in tropical but dripping diffidence, I am the author of that tome. |
