We on the other hand remain curiously diffident - and rather dishonest - on the subject.
Robbins works smoothly and invisibly, with a diffident charm that belies his talent for larceny.
Japanese officials have been more diffident about the agreement and insist their country's sanctions remain in place.
Jim tall, diffident and something of a dandy yields to impulsiveness where women are concerned.
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He wore the crisp white mawashiof a sekitori (a high ranked competitor), and looked on calmly, while his juniors were diffident in their respect.
He co-stars as Colin, a diffident aspiring writer whose older sister, J.
Despite being the fastest-growing, best-educated and most affluent minority group in America, Asians have traditionally been somewhat diffident when it comes to politics.
He can be diffident, but he knows he's on to something.
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The serious, often diffident student was a prime target for pranksters.
That is altogether too diffident an admission for Kenneth Stern.
More likely, agrees Diana Buttu, a former adviser to Mr Abbas, the famously diffident Palestinian president wanted to avoid a showdown, and simply did not expect Hamas to go so far.
Gerhaher comes across as reserved, diffident, averse to show.
Why is the Administration so reluctant, so diffident?
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The student did not grow diffident at all.
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With a uniformly white audience in attendance, Ms. Simone sang unsmiling and diffident versions of "Love Me or Leave Me" and "I Loves You, Porgy, " which she scored a rare top-40 hit with in 1959.
So Beane hires as his assistant a pudgy, diffident non-athlete named Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), an economics major a few years out of Yale, who happens to be a disciple of the sabermetrics guru Bill James.
For the profoundly risk averse and cautious (diffident is another word that applies) Japanese, we are talking a requirement for change that most societies endure and achieve only as a consequence of catastrophic circumstances, like war.
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Her oily, gold-digging, hypocrite accomplice in anachronistic 1960s naughtiness Peter (Matthew Marsh), her diffident gay son Nick (Rory Kinnear) and raunchy daughter Libby's (Helen McCrory) bickering are great performances, but don't actually add up to a play.
And now, when jazz has split into diffident camps divided over whether the music should gaze back or peer forward, the retrofuturism of "Mingus Ah Um" remains an essential guide for how old and new can be reconciled.
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Tristan (Charlie Cox), is a sweet, diffident young man who, as an infant, was delivered to his father in a basket. (The lad's true identity will come as a surprise only to those unfamiliar with the works of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or Walt Disney).
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