| 1. | Polite to an extreme, Ramirez makes diffidence look like egomania.
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| 2. | It's the banality and diffidence that is most striking.
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| 3. | Forbes's diffidence, indeed, is part of his charm.
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| 4. | The director Mike Nichols offered an insight into Malle's diffidence.
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| 5. | The only way to remove the diffidence is to remove the sports.
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| 6. | Brazenness turned to diffidence when they saw who was inside.
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| 7. | James Morris'Iago strikes the right pose between diffidence and overt villainy.
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| 8. | He offers a wry half-smile with a kind of frank diffidence.
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| 9. | He approached the real of a cause with diffidence.
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| 10. | The architect's diffidence should not be construed as a lack of bravura.
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