"… In the nature of man we find three principal causes of quarrel: first, competition; secondly, diffidence, thirdly, glory..." Competition, diffidence, glory.
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There's also a deep diffidence about pointing out uncomfortable truths.
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To him, my diffidence may as well be a foreign language.
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English diffidence tended to elude him; assiduity was more his thing.
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Again, diffidence, as man bows to the howling mystery of the winds.
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His diffidence blends well with his shambling characterization and Ford's unhurried tempo.
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She possesses an uncanny ability to turn her natural charisma into diffidence.
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So far we have seen little on this score other than craven diffidence.
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Europe clears up the mess For Europe and the EU, Obama's diffidence was disastrous.
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But the force he brings to salesmanship obscures the diffidence he brings to governance.
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But the government's blatant bias during the campaign was at odds with this apparent diffidence.
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To the extent that they represented their generation, diffidence about sex is not the problem.
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When did the Supreme Court acquire such diffidence about offering a forum for electoral struggle?
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"Moulin Rouge!" is too ambivalent for that, perhaps reflecting Broadway's ingrained diffidence toward pop music.
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"Washington's self-confidence and Tehran's diffidence increases the risk of miscalculation on both sides," he adds.
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But his diffidence goes hand in hand with sensitivity, hyper-alertness and a scorpion-tailed wit.
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Thomas's gentle diffidence, and his director's fiercely rigorous style, leave his motives denser than unproved sourdough.
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In "Certain Women," a much better movie, she slouches onto the screen with self-effacing diffidence.
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And yet, in the Trump era, for many Democrats thoughtful diffidence is out, and rage is in.
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King-Lu draws Cookie out of his melancholy diffidence, while Cookie calms some of his friend's restlessness.
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Chicken and her mother repeatedly clashed over Chicken's staying out late and her diffidence about cleaning up.
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My diffidence feels out of place in the far more assertive India I returned to in 2011.
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In his gentleness that contained wisdom, in his diffidence that contained enthusiasm, in his discretion that contained curiosity.
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He's helped immeasurably by Mr. Jones's feisty, hilarious performance as Lance, whose diffidence never quite hides his raging pride.
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Giving a tour of her art-filled apartment off Central Park, the dealer Virginia Dwan is all diffidence and grace.
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After a lifetime of diffidence, Rockwell's interviews from the end of the decade are remarkably energetic and cocky, militant, even.
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I don't know why this encouraged my bafflement or diffidence, but I just sat in my car waiting to be asked.
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J.C. Scraggly, slightly out of tune guitar picking runs through "Body Count," but it shouldn't be mistaken for fragility or diffidence.
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Khalid, whose album "Free Spirit" was No. 13 for the year, often croons about his romantic diffidence over strictly skeletal tracks.
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Such diffidence is difficult to detect in her fiction, where the first person has been deployed to devastating effect, albeit infrequently.
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The reality is that in spite of the Obama administration's incoherence and diffidence, the conditions for a positive outcome in Afghanistan are there.
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Mr. Stevens, blandly handsome as a human prince, is a splendid monster, especially when the diffidence and charm start to peek through the rage.
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He is used to being listened to, and to getting what he wants, but he also has a bumbling, earnest diffidence that can be charming.
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One could speculate about her sister Beyoncé's long shadow instilling in her a taste for quietude, for avoiding popstar exuberance with diffidence and a shrug.
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That is a form of diffidence for which the world should be grateful, for it has often restrained the United States from using its power recklessly.
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Mr Modi presents himself as a very different sort of statesman from Mr Singh, who was cerebral, bureaucratic and mild-mannered to the point of diffidence.
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Janet L. Yellen, the Fed's chairwoman, and the heads of other major central banks have repeatedly urged lawmakers to lend a hand — albeit with considerable diffidence.
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Their men's team collapsed in a heap in the World Cup two years ago and continues to play with a listlessness and diffidence in these Olympics.
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Not that her interlocutors are aggressive; they show a friendly diffidence, inviting her to drink with them after they bring bottles of soju into the place.
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He can be tough on the bench during arguments and in the justices' private conference as well, but in public he exudes a self-deprecating diffidence.
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And Ms. Macdonald is quite simply a revelation, capturing the reflexive self-confidence and defensive diffidence of the millennial generation with sneaky sincerity and offhand wit.
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Acosta, as handsome and dashing as Douglas Fairbanks, also has a sadness about him, and a diffidence that suggests a man unsure of his own powers.
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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.
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There's also diffidence and thudding fear, because while Richard's taciturn affect may be a matter of temperament, his darting, haunted eyes also suggest those of a whipped dog.
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Justice Gorsuch showed no such diffidence in expressing his views on a case the court decided on the merits on the term's last day: Trinity Lutheran Church v.
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Leonard unexpectedly missed most of last season with a quad strain, the mystery of which was compounded by Leonard's diffidence and refusal to discuss the nature of that injury.
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The decision to sack Rex Tillerson on Tuesday morning, without telling him face-to-face, is -- as of this hour -- the most glaring example of Trump's sudden-onset diffidence.
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The talks, aimed at cutting Atlantia's stake in Autostrade to a minority, were interrupted over "incomprehension and the climate of diffidence with the government" as regards the concession issue.
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Ms DeLappe has a keen ear for the bravado and awkward diffidence of adolescent speech, and the way teens use profanity and sarcasm to test each other and perform themselves.
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And like Plummer, Lizbeth and Ynoa both find a balance point between diffidence and commitment, between awareness of their own power and a naïveté that excuses how they use it.
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And yet, as Irons demonstrates, this cricket-crazy, God-disdaining don was a paragon of diffidence for whom eye contact, let alone a handshake, was a human bridge too far.
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The scenes at first seem hilarious and then curious and then poignant as I notice the tenderness of some gestures, the diffidence in others, and the smothering desire in still others.
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For Justice Alito, this deference to the district court's ruling looks more like "diffidence"—and is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's 2001 ruling upholding a gerrymander of the very same district.
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Dogged throughout by irate church representatives, Mr. Theroux exhibits an amiable diffidence that dilutes their threats, employing their own jargon ("He seems enturbulated") to reveal them as more silly than sinister.
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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. 27.
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In the three previous debates, Clinton adopted an attitude of pre-presidential diffidence, but on Sunday night she was brawling like a Republican, slamming Sanders on guns, health care reform and taxes.
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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.
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The artists who use the medium still tend to look at people as special, unique carriers of all that cargo of social signification: ethnicity, age, vitality, gender, height, vulnerability, diffidence, reserve, pride, beauty.
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Each ridgy brush stroke is an eddy, and the whole is a view of the ocean — but it's a restless one that won't subside into the easy diffidence of most two-dimensional images.
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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.
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The character identified only as Girlfriend, played by Kaneza Schaal (whose diffidence about her own extraordinary beauty works perfectly here), is also a photographer, though, by her description, not nearly on the same level.
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Given judges' extreme diffidence about questioning the basis for any religious belief, that's a not-implausible reading of a statute that only the much-missed Justice John Paul Stevens had the nerve to call unconstitutional.
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While Ms. Milligan's Pamela cuts loose and loud for a scenery-flinging "How Much More," the songs are mostly delivered with diffidence, as if the cast were saving its energy for some undetermined Big Event.
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Nonetheless, as we drove back to the apartment, I felt an overpowering diffidence about mentioning the situation to Celeste at all, as if its reality depended in part on whether I put it into words.
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Like most love affairs, the beginning is flush with infatuation, the middle feels like a normal and permanent way of life, and the end creeps up on you bringing anguish, diffidence, desperation, and then finally grief.
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Far from being stand-alone organisations that proclaim the values of China with bravado and verve, they are largely parasitical on long-established universities, symbolic more of diffidence and defensiveness, and under almost constant critical attack.
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Gulf Arab leaders want a U.S. president who understands their concerns after eight years of what they regard as diffidence under President Barack Obama, someone who did not provide the kind of personal contact they value.
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In the huge spaces they leave, Karen O's voice moves from diffidence to bravado, daring a girl to dazzle everyone on the dance floor: "Take it to a place we've never been, out of sight," she urges.
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These facts of his early life no doubt contributed to Powell's lifelong diffidence and cool detachment from the lives going on around him, lives that he nevertheless tracked with the obsessiveness and detailed attention of a Nabokovian naturalist.
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Ms. Russo-Young's earlier films (including "You Won't Miss Me" and "Nobody Walks," which she wrote with Lena Dunham) can be intriguingly oblique, using the natural diffidence of millennial characters to suggest hidden reservoirs of frustration, hostility, sorrow and desire.
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If you've been warning about inflation, wrongly, for six or so years, and markets current show no worries about inflation — if anything they're saying that the Fed will undershoot its target — I would expect some diffidence about demanding higher rates yet again.
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Mr. Sachs, in his last three features — this one, "Love Is Strange" and "Keep the Lights On" — has refined a style of emotional realism that stands out against both the mumbly diffidence and the sociological scorekeeping of too much independent American cinema.
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The impulsive mood of recent politics seems to have found fertile terrain, putting Italy in the grip of some sort of health populism triggered by fear, alarm and hasty information, with fear turning into panic, and prudence into diffidence and political squabble.
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Just a few weeks ago it seemed that Trump would skate on charges both of colluding with Russia to subvert the 2016 election and of obstruction of justice; the Mueller report was basically a bust, partly because the story was complicated, partly because of Robert Mueller's diffidence.
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In Lizzie—directed by Craig William Macneill, and co-produced by the actress—historic accuracy is traded for reckless, if often ravishing, revisionism: Lizzie and her housemaid, Bridget Sullivan (played by Kristen Stewart with equal parts diffidence and achy longing), fall in love, pay for it, and plot revenge against the patriarchal powers that be.
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In the face of spurious explanations for public policies that would foreseeably inflict real damage on identifiable groups of people, judges and justices are abandoning the traditional diffidence of the judicial role and expressing a new willingness to call out legislatures for what they are really doing, not just what they say they are doing.
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As viewers, we're generically inclined to support the cops over the criminals; at the same time, we cannot resist becoming attracted to, and even siding with, a drug dealer like D'Angelo Barksdale (The Wire), whose blend of swagger and diffidence, intelligence and good humor render him more human than some of the brutal officers out to imprison him.
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Mr Xi's diffidence in such areas may stem from the mandate he had from the elders who helped him into the jobs he now holds: a broad spectrum of retired and serving leaders and their powerful families who felt that without a helmsman of his mettle and commitment to the party's survival, the party might collapse.
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The promise of books like "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "Smarter Faster Better" is not to tell us what we should be like but to give us tools for becoming that way, devices to get us from our native diffidence and clinginess to where we already know we want to be, friendly and adaptable.
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Despite this diffidence, the Reids wrote about sex like they were poets with degrees in human sexuality: "Cherry Came Too" asks to return the favor ("Come on and kiss my head"), as does "Suck," meanwhile "Penetration" wants it till it "breaks my spine;" and "Teenage Lust" is so hot and sweaty, it deserves to appear on the future episode of Riverdale where the inevitable Betty-Archie-Veronica three-way occurs.
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The film's too-muchness is an annual indulgence for fans, but A.O. Scott, in one of his most blistering reviews, is not one of them: A romantic comedy swollen to the length of an Oscar-trawling epic — nearly two and a quarter hours of cheekiness, diffidence and high-tone smirking — it is more like a record label's greatest-hits compilation or a "very special" sitcom clip-reel show than an actual movie.
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Its publication broke the ice of diffidence and indifference, and launched her career.
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Oscar Tiegs' geographical isolation, and his own diffidence probably prevented him from maximising his contribution to zoology, although rather than diffidence others describe it as an unassuming disposition. He is described as shy and reserved, preferring the laboratory to the committee meeting or social function. He suffered from aortic stenosis, and died of a coronary occlusion in his home in Hawthorn, aged 59.
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Terraine found Mountbatten an impressive performer, but was intrigued by his "curious mix of boastfulness and diffidence". Terraine wrote and narrated The Mighty Continent (1974–75), a 13-part BBC-TV history of Europe in the first three-quarters of the 20th century.
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He was known for his sense of humor, as well as his profound personal diffidence and avoidance of the limelight.On his relationships with students, his sense of humor, and his shyness, see Patrick Kéchichian, “Jean-Louis Chrétien, homme de parole,” La Croix (1 July 2019).
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His family met William Thackeray and Charles Dickens on their American tours, and James even remembered Thackeray mock-scolding his sister Alice for her crinoline dress: "Crinoline? I was suspecting it! So young and so depraved!" In fact, for all his surface diffidence, James harbored almost Napoleonic dreams of glory as an artist.
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Trevor and Caldecott, pp. 60–61. The "sensitive recluse of legend" had a wide currency, appearing, for instance, in Lytton Strachey's description, in his famously debunking set of portraits Eminent Victorians, as Newman's "soft, spectacled, Oxford manner, with its half- effeminate diffidence".Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, 1918, p. 69. :s:Eminent Victorians/Cardinal Manning#VI.
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Rose, a young Parisian woman with full academic training is on the eve of marrying. Suddenly her father fails; she loses her dowry, and her fiancé disappears. She tries to get work, but soon finds out that her diplomas are more of a hindrance than a help. They inspire only diffidence in administrative circles.
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Indeed, Enoch was soon called upon to the exercise of public prayer and exhortation. He soon thereafter entered the field of labor as a Preacher, though with great diffidence. The Rev. George was sent by Bishop Francis Asbury to assist in forming a circuit on the headwaters of the Catawba and Broad rivers, in North Carolina.
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Shyness (also called diffidence) is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is around other people. This commonly occurs in new situations or with unfamiliar people. Shyness can be a characteristic of people who have low self-esteem. Stronger forms of shyness are usually referred to as social anxiety or social phobia.
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Retrieved 29 July 2014. Their daughter Liza wrote in her memoirs: > My mother certainly had extraordinary gifts, but suffered all her life from > quite abnormally developed diffidence. As a girl, she was so musical that > her father declared she did not require lessons! It was, therefore, not > until after her marriage that she began to study music seriously.
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He worked on the mannerisms and body language of the characters to differentiate them from each other. In a negative review of the film, Nandini Ramnath of Scroll.in wrote that Aaryan "nails the diffidence and callowness of his characters" but bemoaned that he lacked "brooding quality and simmering intensity" in certain scenes. It emerged as a box office bomb.
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He also painted two other pictures for the Gallery. Chambers’ career was hampered by personal diffidence in promoting himself and, when he began to succeed, cut short by chronic ill health. A voyage to Madeira in the summer of 1840 failed to bring improvements and he died of heart failure at Brighton on 29 October 1840.
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The duet aria is introduced by a ritornello "with a double hiatus suggestive of modesty or diffidence". The movement is structurally like a da capo aria but lacks a contrasting middle section. Unusually, the work ends not with a closing chorale, but with another chorale fantasia with a "rollicking gigue melody". Again, the soprano carries the chorale melody.
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With just that right mixture of eager-to-please grooves and rock star diffidence, The Penelopes feel just one big chorus away from a serious breakthrough. They even managed to make us forget, briefly, that we’re about to see electropop godfathers (and mothers) The Human League”. The band had also played at The Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape, and NXNE in 2013.
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Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals, in The Corfu Trilogy, > London: Penguin Books, 2006, p. 75. In Prospero's Cell, Lawrence Durrell gave the following description of Stephanides: > For Theodore's portrait: fine head and golden beard: very Edwardian face – > and perfect manners of Edwardian professor. Probably reincarnation of comic > professor invented by Edward Lear during his stay in Corcyra [Corfu]. > Tremendous shyness and diffidence.
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W. E. H. Stanner, who described them as a 'powerful sub- tribe' in the 1930s, originally spent some 6 weeks among the Marrithiyal in 1932, finding it somewhat difficult to enter into friendly relations with them, -troubles with the local police over the killing of a prospector accounting for their diffidence- though he eventually managed to gain their confidence and was allowed to be present and observe two complete circumcision ceremonies.
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Lyons later recounted his meeting with the Soviet leader, a conversation that was conducted in Russian with the occasional help of a translator: > One cannot live in the shadow of Stalin's legend without coming under its > spell. My pulse, I am sure, was high. No sooner, however, had I stepped > across the threshold than diffidence and nervousness fell away. Stalin met > me at the door and shook hands, smiling.
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Maybe they also resented that his salary was well in excess of their own." Alan Gibson wrote about him more volubly: "He thought about the game a lot. Many Australian cricketers do, more than English cricketers probably, but McCool was in some ways an untypical Australian. He had a diffidence and gentleness, which do not always spring to mind as familiar Australian qualities: but he had plenty of Australian determination.
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The Catholic Committee, broken up by the rebellion, had been revived in 1805. But its members were few, its meetings irregularly held, its spirit one of diffidence and fear, its activity confined to preparing petitions to Parliament. Nor were its leaders the stamp of men to conduct a popular movement to success. Keogh was old, and age and the memory of the events he had passed through chilled his enthusiasm for active work.
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These works were published using the pseudonym, "Theodosia". Portions of these spiritual lyrics soon found their way into collections, while the diffidence of the authoress because of her pen name, left her comparatively unknown beyond the circle of her personal friends. In 1760, two volumes, appeared under the title of Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional, by Theodosia. After her death, which occurred in 1778, a new edition was published with an additional volume and a Preface by the Rev.
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The narrative is also very concentric; the film uses a continuous recycling recourse (i.e. the same actors play the three generations, which can be slightly confusing). Médem would also use a loop-like approach in his film Los amantes del círculo polar. Médem subverts the conventions of the family saga by replacing the human subjectivity of conventional melodrama and historical epics with a diffidence about life and death that is expressed through the uninterested gaze of the cows.
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But the best thing about it is its principals, Mr. Fonda and Miss Stanwyck. He, with his loose-jointed blunderings and charming diffidence, and she with her forthright manner and ability to make a man forget are a right team for this sort of dalliance. You Belong To Me is a bit of well-turned fun."You Belong To Me Review, The New York Times, November 1941 Variety also praised the performances of Fonda and Stanwyck, which "merit fulsome praise.
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The film which is considered to include the largest cast in a Maldivian feature film, narrates the story of two ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone with the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love-triangle. The film and his performance as a womanizer received mainly positive reviews from critics. The film emerged as one of the highest grossing Maldivian films of 2017. 2018 was a dull year for Maldivian film-industry with regards to 2018 Maldivian presidential election.
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At the time the Italian forces were still viewed as a potential source of problems, and although they were officially won to the cause the Allied had little or no confidence in them. Therefore, he managed to overcome the diffidence of the British and American Military leaders who had in mind to use Italian troops (regular or partisans) as auxiliary forces. This resulted in the creation of the Volunteer Corps of the Maiella Brigade. The joint military force of British and Italian was nicknamed "Wigforce".
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Kaminski (2007), 86 Ottavio's head is bowed, but his stern facial expression conveys that he is acting as protocol dictates, rather than with genuine diffidence. Nicholas Penny notes that "... at a Renaissance court bowing and scraping were usual. This affects modern attitudes to [the portrait], making the cordial respect of youth seem like the obsequiousness of a crafty courtier." Penny, Nicholas, 1991. "Measuring up", Review of Renaissance Portraits: European Portrait Painting in the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries by Lorne Campbell, London Review of Books [Online] vol.
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After desperate attempts to strike at the heart of the Gotheans, Grey and Edison discover a secret power, personified by a character named Cerbera. The two characters must cross borders with their own side, facing diffidence and disdain of the Emperean Empire itself. They manage to reveal the truth about the conspiracy against the entire world and finally crush Cerbera's greatest agent. In the closing sequence an escape module is shown fleeing from smoldering ruins of the battle, indicating an open end in the story.
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While busying herself, she looked at the ship at anchor without showing any perplexity. She was joined by the four fishermen, who brought their catch to be cooked. After an hour and a half, Cook, Banks, Daniel Solander and Tupaia, together with 30 of the crew, made for the beach, only to be threatened by two warriors. They threw some gifts on shore, trying to get over the idea they had come to seek fresh water, but the Gweagal men reacted with hostile diffidence.
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Between 1885 and 1886, he continued his musical education under the tutelage of Josef Rheinberger in Munich. On a visit to Vienna the following year, Kahn met and befriended composer Johannes Brahms, who offered to make Kahn his pupil.see: Steffen Fahl, Tradition der Natürlichkeit, Studioverlag Sinzig, 1998 page 11-12 Although Kahn declined the invitation out of diffidence, Brahms's music would exert a profound influence on his compositional style throughout his career. After finishing his military service, Kahn worked as a freelance composer in Berlin until 1890.
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The Court of Appeal found that the conviction was proper so dismissed the doctor's appeal as the original direction did not lead to an unsafe or unsound conviction. The Court began by stating (its most senior member, the Chief Justice) "The law, on this branch of the Theft Act 1968 is in a complicated state and we embark upon an examination of the authorities with great diffidence." This court reformulated the test for dishonesty. It held that, Hence the test for dishonesty was subjective and objective.
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In 2017, Manik featured in Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy Mee Loaybakee alongside Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Azza. The film which is considered to include the largest cast in a Maldivian feature film, narrates the story of two ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone with the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love-triangle. The film and his performance as an office boss received mainly positive reviews from critics. The film emerged as one of the highest grossing Maldivian films of 2017.
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In 1854 and 1855, he acted as its editor. He printed, but did not publish, an exposition of the grammatical principles of Becker in The Analysis of the Sentence, (New Haven, 12mo. pp. 100). In the later years of his life he was much occupied in preparing an edition of the Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown, with philological and rhetorical notes. (2d Ed. revised3 New Haven, 1858, 8vo.) Although he made this volume a text-book in his own classes, he refrained, with characteristic diffidence, from offering it to the public.
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Chen mastered the album at Abbey Road Studios and it was released in 2004. In 2005, Boy in Static supported 13 & God, an alternative hip hop group composed of Themselves and The Notwist, opening for their European and US tours. For their Irving Plaza show, Jon Pareles of The New York Times said, "amid the echoes of 1980's bands like New Order, Mr. Chen revealed a strong sense of melody and his own blend of diffidence, longing and tenacity." Boy in Static's second album Violet was released on Mush Records in May 2007.
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His parents intended him for the church, but his diffidence induced him to decline. He went to London and became assistant to the master of an academy at Newington Butts; was soon able to purchase the establishment, and carried it on successfully for thirteen years. Then, his health failing, he gave up the school and returned to Elgin. He had now the leisure and the means to give effect to what had been the great desire of his life, a visit to Italy. The Peace of Amiens was known in Elgin on 7 October 1801.
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The name of the column, with its nice mixture of diffidence and self-assertion, anticipated the tone, and reflected the writer. Nettie Palmer had written in 1928: 'There was always a curious modesty about Harrison Owen … “I'm just a young man from Geelong”, he used to say'. He retired in 1955, although he published in the Melbourne Herald in 1957 a series of articles, Down Memory Lane. Predeceased by his wife, and childless, Owen died of Cerebrovascular disease at St Kilda East on 30 May 1966 and was cremated.
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G. Davidson, Opera Biographies (Werner Laurie, London 1955), 267. George Bernard Shaw, who first saw him on stage as Di Luna in Il trovatore, considered that Santley's dramatic powers were 'blunt, unpractised, and prone to fall back on a good- humoured nonchalance in his relations with the audience, which was highly popular, but which destroyed all dramatic illusion. He was always Santley, the good fellow with no nonsense about him, and a splendid singer.... The nonchalance was really diffidence....'G. B. Shaw, Music in London, 1890-94 (Constable, London 1932), II, 195.
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He took an illustrated lecture tour on "South Australia before 1850" through major country centres. Includes conspiracy theory as to how H.A.G. won the Agent- General billet. In May 1906 Grainger was bruited as a United Labor candidate Quote: "He knows a thing or two about finance, and is not afflicted with any diffidence in airing his opinions" for the forthcoming Federal elections, then dropped. He stood for the State House of Assembly seat of Alexandra in November that year, but was not one of the four elected.
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By the end of August, Mihailović's Chetniks and the Partisans began attacking Axis forces, sometimes jointly despite their mutual diffidence, and captured numerous prisoners. On 28 October 1941 Mihailović received an order from the Prime Minister of the Yugoslav Government in exile Dušan Simović who urged Mihailović to avoid premature actions and avoid reprisals. Mihailović discouraged sabotage due to German reprisals (such as more than 3,000 killed in Kraljevo and Kragujevac) unless some great gain could be accomplished. Instead, he favoured sabotage that could not easily be traced back to the Chetniks.
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In the summer of 1872, she traveled west with her sick husband, and was prostrated in St. Paul, Minnesota with malarious fever. Up to that time, she had suffered greatly from diffidence, dreading to face strangers and never lifting her voice even in the conference room. Face to face with death, she forgot to care what the world might say of her or her work. When her husband, after their return, was again prostrated by illness, she went at his urgent plea into his pulpit and conducted the Sunday service.
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The linked prepositional phrases oblige the reader to construct complex visual images of the Floridian scenes, and the focus on jingling in each sentence brings sound to the images as well. The similarity of syntactic structure in the first three sentences induces an almost hypnotic effect, like repetition of a mantra. The final sentence may betray the poet's diffidence about the prospects for renewal, as in Depression Before Spring, or, as Cook suggests, it may simply reflect Stevens's belief that Florida had no spring.She writes that he later acknowledged that he was mistaken about this.
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She was offered the opportunity to become an official musician at the Spanish royal court, but her parents sent her back to Paris instead for further study. Her concert career was interrupted in 1921, on the eve of a United States tour, by a bout of ill health and what the French call "le trac", or an attack of nerves. Her diffidence and stage fright were to follow her throughout her career as a composer. She became desperately shy when she had to show Piaf a new song, even after years of collaboration.
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He put in a claim for the Avar medal on the strength of this piece of service, but the request was refused with scant courtesy by the war office. Some of his criticisms of Lord Chelmsford were held in certain quarters to have been unnecessarily offensive. Forbes had seen war practically illustrated in all quarters of the globe, and he had outgrown any semblance of diffidence in passing judgment upon difficult military operations. Carlo Pellegrini ('Ape') in Vanity Fair, 1878 Forbes had already published several volumes of Daily News war correspondence. That relating to 1870–1 was widely circulated.
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Now making his first appearance as a public lecturer, Heeren was careful to confine his teaching to a middle ground between History and Philology, partly out of diffidence and partly of a congenital indecisiveness. He thus avoided for some years a direct commitment to the discipline in which he would later become famous. During this period Heeren undertook with his friend Thomas Christian Tychsen a “Library of Ancient Literature and Art,” which had a short-lived existence. At the same time he initiated publication of the edition of Johannes Stobaeus's Eclogues that he had prepared years earlier.
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After the war, Rivers became "another and far happier man – diffidence gave place to confidence, reticence to outspokenness, a somewhat laboured literary style to one remarkable for ease and charm".Myers 1922 He is quoted as saying "I have finished my serious work and I shall just let myself go." In those post war years, his personality seemed to change dramatically. The man who had been most at home in his study, the laboratory, or the field now dined out a good deal, had joined clubs, went yachting and appeared to welcome rather than shun opportunities for public speaking.
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His performance in the film fetched him a nomination as the Best Supporting Actor at the 8th Gaumee Film Awards ceremony. In 2017, Rizwee featured in the Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy Mee Loaybakee alongside Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Azza. The film, which is considered to include the largest cast in a Maldivian feature film, narrates the story of two ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone with the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love-triangle. The film and his performance received mainly positive reviews from critics where Aishath Maaha of Avas called his acting to be "good overall".
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Azza at 9th Gaumee Film Awards ceremony, 2019 In 2017, Azza established herself as a leading actress of contemporary Maldivian cinema by featuring in four of the top-grossing productions of the year. Her first release of the year was the Ali Shifau- directed romantic comedy Mee Loaybakee alongside Mohamed Jumayyil. At the time of release, the film held the record of being the Maldivian film featuring the largest cast onscreen. The film tells the story of ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone, and the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love-triangle.
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The play was well received by critics in major cities following its premieres in Vienna, London, and New York. The initial release in Vienna garnered several reviews describing the show as a positive departure from Shaw's usual dry and didactic style. The Broadway premiere in New York was praised in terms of both plot and acting, described as "a love story with brusque diffidence and a wealth of humor." Reviews of the production in London were slightly less unequivocally positive, with the Telegraph noting that the play was deeply diverting with interesting mechanical staging, although the critic ultimately found the production somewhat shallow and overly lengthy.
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Introduced in the first episode and closing the final episode, "Mr. Big" (Chris Noth) is Carrie's central love interest throughout the series and recurring romantic foil – his continual romantic ambiguity and Carrie's diffidence about confronting him over it highlight Carrie's fears, insecurities, and emotional needs. Despite the turmoil in their relationship, Carrie and Big make continuous appearances in each other's lives, which is the source of both joy and stress for Carrie. "Big" is introduced as a wealthy man who runs into Carrie on the street, helping her pick up a large number of condoms that fell out of her purse after it had been knocked from her hand.
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Her performance as a responsible mother and a caring friend fetched her a nomination as the Best Female Debut at the 8th Gaumee Film Awards ceremony. In 2017, Noora featured in the Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy Mee Loaybakee alongside Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Azza. The film, which is considered to include the largest cast in a Maldivian feature film, narrates the story of two ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone with the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love-triangle. The film and her performance received mainly positive reviews from critics where Aishath Maaha of Avas called her acting to be "good overall".
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The term shyness may be implemented as a lay blanket-term for a family of related and partially overlapping afflictions, including timidity (apprehension in meeting new people), bashfulness and diffidence (reluctance in asserting oneself), apprehension and anticipation (general fear of potential interaction), or intimidation (relating to the object of fear rather than one's low confidence). Apparent shyness, as perceived by others, may simply be the manifestation of reservation or introversion, a character trait which cause an individual to voluntarily avoid excessive social contact or be terse in communication, but are not motivated or accompanied by discomfort, apprehension, or lack of confidence. Introversion is commonly mistaken for shyness. However, introversion is a personal preference, while shyness stems from distress.
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This work, completed at Rome in 1143, in five months, was intended to prepare the author's three young sons for the study of the Bible. Menahem undertook to prepare for the first time in Hebrew a comprehensive manual of the Hebrew language and of Biblical exegesis. The work was divided into fifty parts; the first part, by far the largest and most valuable, was a dictionary of the Hebrew language; the other parts, now known only by their chapter-headings, dealt with grammar. The author follows chiefly Menahem ben Saruq; occasionally, and with diffidence, however, he advances his own views, and the entire conception of the form and contents of the work shows a certain degree of independence.
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Marinid Tombs at the Necropolis of Chellah The defeat in Kairouan diminished the power of the Marinids, who slipped into a period of decline. In the West Maghreb, the Marinids are not able to control the entire population. The Arab tribes grow more restless, the tax receipts decline and the sultans lose their power in favour of the Arab viziers, who are representatives of a real caste of high officials which take control of the kingdom and declare themselves as sultans themselves. The leaders are subjected to a close guardianship during this period of upheaval and the smallest amount of diffidence would lead to the overthrow or the assassination of the sultan.
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Giovanni Vailati (1815 - 1890) was an Italian mandolinist who reached the virtuosic-level of playing ability and was able to travel and perform throughout Europe. Entirely self taught on his instrument, he was described by Philip J. Bone as a "natural genius on his instrument, who by his remarkable performances, became known throughout his native land as 'Vailati the blind, the Paganini of the mandolin.'" He is important as one the first generations of quality performers to use mandolin. He was one of a small number of mandolinists of the 19th century to play the mandolin in the concert halls of Europe after the Napoleonic War, who played with excellence in spite of indifference and diffidence toward their chosen instrument.
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He kills four giants called Giant Grim, Giant Maul, Giant Slay-Good, and Giant Despair and participates in the slaying of a monster called Legion that terrorizes the city of Vanity Fair. When Christiana's party leaves Gaius's Inn and Mr. Feeble-Mind lingers in order to be left behind, he is encouraged to accompany the party by Greatheart. Christiana, Matthew, Joseph, Samuel, James, Mercy, Greatheart, Mr. Feeble- Mind, and Mr. Ready-To-Halt come to Bypath-Meadow and, after much fight and difficulty, slay the cruel Giant Despair and the wicked Giantess Diffidence, and demolish Doubting Castle for Christian and Hopeful who were oppressed there. They free a pale man named Mr. Despondency and his daughter named Much- Afraid from the castle's dungeons.
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260, 285–286 Mary was depicted by Jacobites as an unfaithful daughter who destroyed her father for her own and her husband's gain.Waller, pp. 277–279 In the early years of their reign, she was often seen as completely under the spell of her husband, but after she had temporarily governed alone during his absences abroad, she was portrayed as capable and confident. Nahum Tate's A Present for the Ladies (1692) compared her to Queen Elizabeth I.Waller, pp. 283–284 Her modesty and diffidence were praised in works such as A Dialogue Concerning Women (1691) by William Walsh, which compared her to Cincinnatus, the Roman general who took on a great task when called to do so, but then willingly abandoned power.
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It was not until 1955, after the Martha Jackson Gallery had offered Hepworth the opportunity to exhibit in their space alongside works by William Scott and Francis Bacon, that Hepworth formalised gallery representation in the new world. Hepworth's difficulties in establishing a stable gallery relationship in the United States have been attributed to many factors, including the artist's own diffidence regarding personal promotion of her work. When Martha Jackson failed to arrange the solo American exhibition of sculptures and drawings that Hepworth demanded, Hepworth moved, in 1957, to Galerie Chalette, run by Arthur and Madeleine Lejwa, known for their close relationship with Jean Arp, and dedication to close relationships with their artists. The Lejwas came through with the solo exhibition Hepworth craved.
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The film was released to a mixed critical reception; The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Pfeiffer's role is underwritten, but her performance is expert enough to make even diffidence compelling." Wolf was a commercial success, grossing US$65 million (equivalent to $ million) at the domestic box office and US$131 million worldwide (equivalent to $ million). Pfeiffer's next role was that of high school teacher and former United States Marine LouAnne Johnson in the drama Dangerous Minds (1995), which was co-produced under her company Via Rosa Productions. She appeared as her character in the music video for the soundtrack's lead single, "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio, featuring L.V.; the song won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, and the video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video.
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Adams at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, where she received her second nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Doubt (2008) The 2008 Sundance Film Festival saw the release of Sunshine Cleaning, a comedy-drama about two sisters (played by Adams and Emily Blunt) who start a crime scene clean-up business. Adams was attracted to the idea of playing someone who constantly tries to better herself. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle considered Adams to be "magical", adding that she "gives us a portrait of raging want beneath a veneer of surface diffidence". In the 1939-set screwball comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Adams starred as an aspiring American actress in London who encounters a middle-aged governess named Miss Pettigrew (played by Frances McDormand).
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Afterward, a false pilgrim named By- Ends and his friends, who followed Christian and Hopeful only to take advantage of them, perish at the Hill Lucre, never to be seen or heard from again. On a rough, stony stretch of road, Christian and Hopeful leave the highway to travel on the easier By-Path Meadow, where a rainstorm forces them to spend the night. In the morning they are captured by Giant Despair, who is known for his savage cruelty, and his wife Diffidence; the pilgrims are taken to the Giant's Doubting Castle, where they are imprisoned, beaten and starved. The Giant and the Giantess want them to commit suicide, but they endure the ordeal until Christian realizes that a key he has, called Promise, will open all the doors and gates of Doubting Castle.
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The following year he starred in another Dark Rain Entertainment production, the Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy Vaashey Mashaa Ekee (2016) opposite Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Majudha narrating the life of a happily married couple being separated due to the husband's crippling fear of commitment on his wife's pregnancy. In 2017, Rizwee featured in the Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy Mee Loaybakee alongside Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Azza. The film, which is considered to include the largest cast in a Maldivian feature film, narrates the story of two ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone with the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love-triangle. The film and his performance received mainly positive reviews from critics where Aishath Maaha of Avas called his acting to be "good overall".
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Following precedent in modestly requesting to be excused, Yelverton went to extraordinary lengths to cite his unfitness for the role: > Neither from my person nor my nature doth this choice arise: for he that > supplieth this place ought to be a man big and comely, stately and well- > spoken; his voice great, his courage majestic, his nature haughty and his > purse plentiful and heavy; but, contrarily, the stature of my person is > small, myself not so well-spoken, my voice low, my carriage lawyer-like and > of common-fashion, my nature soft and bashful, and my purse thin, light, and > never yet plentiful.Lardner, quoted in Baldwin, p. 356 Notwithstanding his diffidence, Yelverton was a conspicuously successful Speaker. He exercised moderation and discretion to defuse tensions between Parliament and the Crown.
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Ibrahim made his film debut with the Dark Rain Entertainment production, the Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy Vaashey Mashaa Ekee (2016) opposite Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Majudha narrating the life of a happily married couple being separated due to the husband's crippling fear of commitment on his wife's pregnancy. His performance as an unfaithful boyfriend fetched him a nomination as the Best Male Debut at the 8th Gaumee Film Awards ceremony. The following year, Ibrahim featured in another Ali Shifau-directed romantic comedy, Mee Loaybakee alongside Mohamed Jumayyil and Mariyam Azza. The film, which is considered to include the largest cast in a Maldivian feature film, narrates the story of two ex-lovers sliding into the friend zone with the envy and diffidence they experience amidst a convoluted love- triangle.
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He had bluish gray eyes and a somewhat sallow complexion, but which > inclined to ruddiness upon exercise or from blushing, a habit he was much > given to from excessive diffidence. His nose, long and thin, and his > forehead, broad and angular, were his most characteristic features. Being an > intense student, his mind appeared to be constantly preoccupied, and he > seldom spoke to anyone unless he was spoken to, and then his voice was thin > and feminine – almost squeaky – while his utterances were quick, jerky, and > sententious, but when once made were there ended; there was no repetition or > amending; no hypothesis or observation to lead to further observation. When > a jocular remark occurred in his hearing he smiled as though he understood > and enjoyed it, but never ventured comment to promote further mirth.
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Emsworth is at first pleased to see Gertrude less dour, and charmed by his guest's diffidence and helpful ways, but soon finds himself smothered – Bingham is overdoing the ingratiating. Emsworth even begins to question the man's sanity, when he wakes in the night to find the fellow blowing kisses up at his window. When Bingham tries to help Emsworth off a ladder and knocks him to the ground, he hopes to remedy the others ills (and anger) with a bottle of balm; sadly however, he buys a product designed for horses, which causes his Lordship considerable pain. When he sees Emsworth singing during his morning swim, he mistakes the awful noise for cries for help, and dashes in to save the aging peer, only to be thanked with a stiff punch in the face.
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According to Rotten Tomatoes, "Michael Hoffman's script doesn't quite live up to its famous subject, but this Tolstoy biopic benefits from a spellbinding tour de force performance by Helen Mirren." Critic Philip French praised McAvoy for bringing "the same amiable diffidence he brought to the role of Idi Amin's confidant in The Last King of Scotland". Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called Hoffman's direction "accomplished", and the film's centerpiece "the spectacular back and forth between Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren...For those who enjoy actors who can play it up without ever overplaying their hands, "The Last Station" is the destination of choice." On the negative side, one reviewer characterized the film as a "genteel domestic farce" and faulted the director for "pander[ing] to the worst impulses of the cast".
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Liszt's assistant, Joachim Raff, notes in December 1851 that he would soon be asked to produce a provisional orchestration of the opera for Liszt, but this never took place. Shortly thereafter Liszt seems to have abandoned his work on the opera. It is possible that his diffidence resulted from reading Wagner's essay Opera and Drama, by whose criteria an Italian opera could have appeared somewhat outmoded (even as Liszt's ambition was expressly to modernise the genre, the better to translate a literary source into 'musical drama'). But Trippett has argued this was unlikely to have been a decisive factor, and suggested instead that Liszt's abandonment resulted from his concern over the libretto, and the fact that he never received a revised libretto for Acts 2 and 3, so could not set these to music.
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Minamoto no Yoritomo's famous younger half-brother Yoshitsune, celebrated in Japan in Noh and Kabuki plays for both his bravery and his death, served the shōgun faithfully for years, leading the Minamoto clan in defeating the Taira clan, but for several reasons couldn't avoid a confrontation with him.A Guide to Kamakura, "Manpukuji" After some victories, he tried to enter Kamakura, but was stopped at Koshigoe by a letter from Hōjō Tokimasa. He waited fruitlessly about 20 days at Koshigoe's Manpuku-ji, near Shichirigahama, then dictated to his attendant Benkei a letter for Yoritomo destined to become famous, the "Letter from Koshigoe", in which he complained that he had never betrayed his brother, but to the contrary had always faithfully served him. He had won for him important victories, but had received nothing but reproach and diffidence in return.
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" This was the second highest Metacritic score for a comedy film in 2013. According to polls conducted by CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a B+ rating, on a scale from A to F. A.O. Scott of The New York Times praised Bell, writing that she "plays Carol with a perfect blend of diffidence, goofiness and charm, has written and directed an insightful comedy that is much more complex and ambitious than it sometimes seems." While noting that Bell is a former contributor to the publication, The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy comments that the film is "a lively, sometimes very funny comedy" that offers an "amusing peek into a seldom- visited corner of showbiz," that is the world of Hollywood voice-over talent. McCarthy describes Sam as "genial and intimidating" and Carol as a "charming, neurotic live wire" who is also "shapely and quick-witted.
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Following the Balkan Wars, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 was therefore a culmination of the heightened tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. If Count Berchtold had been accused of indecisiveness and diffidence during the Balkan Wars, he gave proof of more resolve during the July Crisis. Pushed by the so-called Young Rebels at the Ballhausplatz led by Count Hoyos, his chef de cabinet, Count Berchtold seized the opportunity to launch punitive action against Serbia and deal the country a mortal blow. After having dispatched Count Hoyos on a mission to Berlin on 5 July to secure German support for Austria-Hungary's future actions, which resulted in the famous "blank cheque", he became the leading spokesman, together with the Chief of the General Staff General Conrad von Hötzendorf, for war against Serbia during the meeting of the Imperial Crown Council on 7 July.
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" Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle opined "[it] abandons any pretext of sophistication for gloppy sentimentality, sugary pop songs and bawdy humor – an approach that works about half the time ... most of the story lines maintain interest because of the fine cast and general goodwill of the picture." In his review in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called it "a romantic comedy swollen to the length of an Oscar-trawling epic – nearly two and a quarter hours of cheekiness, diffidence and high-tone smirking" and added, "it is more like a record label's greatest-hits compilation or a very special sitcom clip-reel show than an actual movie. ... the film's governing idea of love is both shallow and dishonest, and its sweet, chipper demeanor masks a sour cynicism about human emotions that is all the more sleazy for remaining unacknowledged. It has the calloused, leering soul of an early-60's rat-pack comedy, but without the suave, seductive bravado.
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The post-war migration from Southern Italy towards the more industrialized North engendered a degree of diffidence across the Italian social strata. A successive wave of immigration by extracomunitari (non-EU immigrants; the word has strong undertones of rejection)Alexander p.57. from the late 80s, gave rise to political movements, like the Northern League, hostile to both the so-called terroni (an Italian slur against southern Italians, whose presence in the North is regarded by party members as analogous to that of aliens from North Africa«It is unnatural that "administrators" from regions which, geographically and ethnically speaking, can be considered North-African or Arab, should "govern" us and lord it over us in our home, with the arrogance that we all know.» , ) and clandestini (illegal immigrants: this word also has a strongly negative connotation of secrecy and criminal behavior) from outside of Western Europe and the areas south of the Mediterranean.
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Jefferson never settled on whether differences were natural or nurtural, but he stated unquestionably that his views ought to be taken cum grano salis; > The opinion, that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and > imagination, must be hazarded with great diffidence. To justify a general > conclusion, requires many observations, even where the subject may be > submitted to the Anatomical knife, to Optical glasses, to analysis by fire > or by solvents. How much more then where it is a faculty, not a substance, > we are examining; where it eludes the research of all the senses; where the > conditions of its existence are various and variously combined; where the > effects of those which are present or absent bid defiance to calculation; > let me add too, as a circumstance of great tenderness, where our conclusion > would degrade a whole race of men from the rank in the scale of beings which > their Creator may perhaps have given them. To our reproach it must be said, > that though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races of > black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of > natural history.
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The latter work expresses Peretti Junior's lively interest in esotericism: a follower of René Guénon, a passionate reader of Rudolf Steiner and Allan Kardec, of Eliphas Levi, and of Buddhist and yoga texts, the artist and scholar created a large library of esoteric and theosophical works together with his friend Adolfo Papetti, a collector and the executor of his will. An increasingly solitary and eccentric figure, often mystified by the diffidence of his fellow townspeople (who believed he knew the secrets of the archaic sorcery of the Valley) and the superficiality of the criticism of his work, Lorenzo Peretti Junior spent the last decades of his life living in seclusion at Toceno, devoting himself mostly to studying and critiquing art. An analytical, in- depth reassessment of his role in the art of Valle Vigezzo and Italy generally at the turn of the 20th century would not be carried out until the 1990s, with the research of the Piedmontese critic Dario Gnemmi (1957-2005), in particular the volumes Retour à la ferme (Return to the farm) (1993) and the posthumous Vigezzini di Francia. Pittura d'alpe e d'Oltralpe tra Otto e Novecento in Valle Vigezzo (The French Vigezzini.
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