Sentences with word «diffidence»

These lines, invoked with youthful diffidence in Before Sunrise, could stand as fitting epigraph to Richard Linklater's entire Before trilogy.

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.

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.

Nursing mother will sometimes feel diffidence.

You get a sense of Barbados» laid back attitude the moment you arrive and it is sometimes easy to mistake this for diffidence, but don't be fooled, the chances are that your request has been noted and will be dealt with.

If so, it's because he has given younger painters a way out of their own race with art criticism, academic theory, shopworn irony, heartless formalism, and mannered diffidence as if painting had no future.

Forty years ago, Glen Elder, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina and a pioneer in the field of «life course» studies, found a pronounced diffidence in elderly men (though not women) who had suffered hardship as 20 - and 30 - somethings during the Depression.

Whitehead thought anything like proof was impossible here; with great diffidence he sketched the sort of other «order» which his metaphysics suggests.

Conceptions of what it means to be a faithful Catholic in the French public square are light - years ahead of the awkward diffidence that characterized many politically active Catholics in previous decades.

Professor Ayala illustrates the very fashionable Catholic diffidence about the import of recent discoveries about the nature of the universe, whilst Clive Copus, who helpfully flags up the dominance of Ayala's school of thought at the Rome evolution conference last year, proposes the «Intelligent Design» (ID) argument that some parts of the universe point to God, and by implication that some don't do so nearly so well.

Besides the line - up, tactics pay diffidence to the Arsenal side right now.

Einstein had a sense of humor; a sly diffidence was one of his stocks - in - trade when dealing with the press, and this was a sweetly funny thing to say — except that in this case I think he was quite serious.

Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people.

Demonstrating an eighth sin by frittering away an enormously promising career, Mr. Pitt walks through this film looking rumpled and nonchalant, mumbling his lines with hip diffidence to spare.

Vince Vaughn, in a role similar to the one he played in Jon Favreau's «Made,» is the mastermind behind this, and Will Ferrell plays another friend, whose dim - witted diffidence disappears as soon as he starts drinking.

It's Got: Some very sharp lines; two very different kinds of contract; standout performances from Dwayne Johnson, André Benjamin and the late Robert Pastorelli (as dyspeptic hitman Joe Loop),; John Travolta dancing with Uma Thurman (again); and a marked diffidence on issues like race and the environment.

With customary diffidence, the Coens maintain that they named the film after the city merely because they liked the sound of it.

The keyed - up performances in Sun Don't Shine set its vivid motel - country travelogue apart, but the typical SXSW narrative feature is grounded in regional and subcultural specifics and invariably concerns characters trying to rouse themselves from paralyzing diffidence.

Despite her obvious diffidence she pulls off the façade despite not knowing where she is going or what Brooklyn has in store for her.

Glen's prodding forces Russell to consider questions he has conditioned himself to ignore; Russell's diffidence melts Glen's protective cynicism and brings out his latent sweetness and vulnerability.

After perhaps six weeks, Jae - sun came home with thirty pounds of bonito, yellowtail, and albacore, and with a certain diffidence he told me, «I've invited our supplier to the restaurant with his family.

Responses to and reactions against the artist's diffidence vary widely, from total infatuation among those enthralled by impenetrable mysteries, to impatience and hostility among those who suppose that artists owe it to their audience to «come clean» and «tell all.»

As if in accord, this year's Biennial dramatized uneasy quiescence, restless occupation of liminal spaces, oscillation on thresholds — what catalogue contributor Rebecca Solnit calls «radical diffidence.»

Mary Heilmann's recent abstract paintings are characterized by an almost brazen diffidence — a dispassionate equanimity — that ultimately proves entirely satisfying.

But it underscored their apparent diffidence, making both Reinhardt and Irwin seem eccentric troublemakers.

The bronze sculptures of horses each have a distinctly different character for instance the beautiful majestic and powerful Horse, 1983 at Jesus College, Cambridge to the gentle diffidence of Field Day, 1986, also known as the Korus Horse in San Eulalia, Ibiza and the mysterious, mythological qualities of the Unicorn and Oak Tree, 1991.

They must have felt modern art freshly and with a new sense that they were actually living it; contact with many of the impressive reputations of Paris had done something to free them of their provincial diffidence.

The Supreme Court's recent discussions of the principle reflect a similar diffidence and, if somewhat tentatively, a strategic retreat from a fulsome embrace of the doctrine.

It happens to amount to a criticism of what you've described as «overzealousness» in a sexual assault case but in this instance from the participants in the critical narrative (here the Crown and the trial judge); coupled to an instance of lack of competence, or a perhaps lack of appropriate zealousness, or maybe just diffidence, on the part of defence counsel in complying with defence counsel's obligations under the defence narrative.

The extra pounds may provoke signs of diffidence and body - image issues leading to crash diets and chemical substance usage for curbing purposes, the fact that excessive weight is the source of a multitude of health problems really voices our concerns.

Last Friday, Father Richard John Neuhaus, in a piece about the possibilities of reconverting the nation of England to the ancient faith, made a passing reference to Cardinal Newman's diffidence about actively seeking Anglican converts to the Catholic Church and specifically cited....

The diffidence and even disdain that Indians are induced to have about their own socio - economic status is pathetic.

Judaism must shed its diffidence toward history and once again engage with the realities of power, statehood, and universal concern for the other.

Perhaps he was wrong in both the opposition and the diffidence in that particular case.

Last Friday, Father Richard John Neuhaus, in a piece about the possibilities of reconverting the nation of England to the ancient faith, made a passing reference to Cardinal Newman's diffidence about actively seeking Anglican converts to the Catholic Church and specifically cited Newman's principle: «I am afraid to make hasty converts of educated men lest they should not have counted the cost & should have difficulties after they have entered the Church....

A historian, to be sure, must feel some diffidence in offering such confident, perhaps judgmental assertions about a project that must be carried out by others — by theologians.

And that tendency has been continually associated with a striving towards academic excellence on the part of the educators, and a diffidence towards venturesome thinking (or at least expression) on the part of churchmen.

And that tendency has been continually associated with a striving toward academic excellence on the part of the educators and a diffidence toward venturesome thinking (or at least expression) on the part of churchmen.

See the diffidence concerning the ability of modern knowledge of nature to be convincing evidence for God referred to in our review of Paul Haffner's quality book and our Cutting Edge column, as well its presence on our Letters» page.

I must now state, in all diffidence, what I conceive to be the essential character of the religious spirit.

There's a giant industrial skip at the back of parliament with the corpses of dozens of would - be leaders... He's got that Old Etonian charm and what appears to be diffidence, which often masks quite ruthless ambition.

I have a hard time seeing how the Republican Congressmen expect to win with the attitude, diffidence and hang - back laziness they are displaying up against the highly motivated democratic colleagues.

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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.