| 1. | So he stood diffidently beside Rosenthal as he read it for him:
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| 2. | Fincher's angry, diffidently witty ideas about contemporary manhood unfold.
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| 3. | Shaw diffidently offered the baton to Toscanini.
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| 4. | On this day, his bow tie has been diffidently stuffed into his breast pocket.
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| 5. | Germany prospered but exercised power diffidently; France and Britain behaved as Germany's equals or betters.
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| 6. | For much of the day, Abu Talb answered diffidently, though he frequently wiped his brow with a folded handkerchief.
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| 7. | Woe unto innocent foreign guests who diffidently suggest otherwise to their host after spending a night or two in a freezing bedroom.
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| 8. | Gunmen wandered around the parking lot, and one fighter in a ward corridor diffidently concealed his Kalashnikov rifle under his cloak.
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| 9. | After all, it had been carefully, if diffidently, saved for 68 years, waiting for someone to make it whole.
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| 10. | Hornblower " diffidently " asked Bush to be his first lieutenant; Bush, for his part, was hoping to be asked.
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