diffidence

1 What makes Mr. Snowden fascinating — a great movie character, whatever you think of his cause — is the combination of diffidence, resolve and unpretentious intelligence that makes him so familiar.

2 Coppola’s minimalism can be frustratingly rather than productively diffuse, but her aesthetic reserve suits this story and the diffidence of her heroine.

3 In its second season, Mr. Crook and especially Toby Jones continued their marvelous work as small-timers who, most of the time, mask their frustration and rage in hilariously ineffectual diffidence.

4 We set his silence down to his diffidence.

我们把他的沉默归之于缺乏自信。

5 Their elegant movements, choreographed by John Heginbotham, combined stylized gestures and a certain sweet diffidence that fit the music well.

6 On Tuesday, the quietly sensational Maria Kowroski, long experienced in this pairing but often muted by a certain diffidence of delivery, attained a new peak of authority.

7 This is only compounded by some of the members’ diffidence.

8 I feel a certain diffidence about attempting to speak of the book at all.

9 An example is "One Summer," a set of fragments in which each paragraph starts with "One summer ... " and goes on to relate, with puzzling diffidence, a series of inconsequential remarks.

10 Barrymore is child-sized, with what look like milk teeth, tiny hands and, for much of the interview, a gilded diffidence at odds with her LA drawl but still somewhere on the adolescent spectrum.

11 Invariably, it took Ben and Mary Anne months before they could overcome their native diffidence, which actually was an obstinate refusal to make themselves vulnerable.

12 There was footage of her in those days, wearing cat glasses and walking self-consciously, a picture of diffidence.

13 He has some of the half-rough, half-pretty charisma of a young Michael York, and he plays Edward with a perfect blend of diffidence and defensiveness.

14 There's a great deal of modesty and diffidence in my world.

在我的世界里，有着许多谦逊和缺乏自信。

15 King-Lu draws Cookie out of his melancholy diffidence, while Cookie calms some of his friend’s restlessness.

16 Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning'Old Nick's.'

克朗彻先生觉得有点扫兴, 解释说他指的是 “ 老撒旦 ”.

17 Each sentence seems to be sprung from coy diffidence and measured irony.

18 We set his silence down to his diffidence.

我们把他的沉默归之于羞怯。

19 What remains to be uncovered, in my opinion, is the true root of The Gray Lady’s own diffidence toward the Orange Skull.

20 The outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away.

她的生活的外壳，她的一切天生的羞怯和庄重，全撕破了。

1 谦虚

modest diffident modestly modesty open mind

2 胆怯

nervous meticulous coward fearsome dastardly gingerly skittish unmanly timorous pusillanimous lily-livered shily timidity funk quail daunt lose nerve

3 胆小

chicken-heart milk-livered pigeonhearted harehearted henhearted chicken yellow milky coward timid fearsome cowardly craven tremulous diffident mousy timorous yellow-bellied fainthearted lily-livered rabbity cowardy white-livered chicken-livered faintheart poor-spirited pavid cowish cowardice nervosity

4 缺乏自信

chicken-hearted diffident self-distrust diffidently flappable unassured

5 不信任

shy diffident mistrustful disbelief discredit unfaith nonconfidence mistrust suspect distrust

6 没有自信

diffident

7 疑惑

questioningly doubt haze discredit distrust misgiving peradventure swither

8 畏缩

funky withering shrink recoil flinch wince curl shy weaken funk cringe falter quail wither cower crinkle squinch blench overawe

9 谦逊

humble modest meek unassuming unpretentious diffident humility stoop modesty on knees

10 腼腆

coy sheepish chary gawky

11 猜疑

jealous suspicion distrust surmise suspect

12 怀疑

shy doubtful skeptic incredulous unconvinced unbelieving distrustful askance questioningly dubiosity doubt query suspicion disbelief skepticism discredit mistrust unbelief incredulity sus misdoubt incertitude dubiety dubitation skepsis suspect question dispute distrust disbelieve misbelieve look shy at call in question from Missouri

13 羞怯

pigeonhearted conscious shy modest timid self-conscious sheepish bashful diffident shamefaced undemonstrative farouche modestly timorously modesty self-consciousness timidity bashfulness timorousness pudicity diffidently bashfully awkwardness strange backward retiring coy chary chickenhearted shily shrink into oneself fearsome skittish fainthearted faintheart pudency aw-shucks timorous blushful can not say boo to a goose