These lines, invoked with youthful diffidence in Before Sunrise, could stand as fitting epigraph to Richard Linklater's entire Before trilogy. (slantmagazine.com)
This last sentence especially, I believe, helps to contextualize Newman's opposition to building a Catholic church in Oxford, or at least it allows us to cast light on his reasons for diffidence about the idea. (firstthings.com)
This preference has been associated to worries about their privacy and a deeply ingrained diffidence towards the state, which some trace back to the era of the Nazis and of communist East Germany. (cnbc.com)