McConnell, by contrast, is withdrawn and diffident in his public.
|
|
When he did show up for events, he was diffident.
|
|
Mr. Cummings, a spindly, socially diffident, unsmiling figure, spoke next.
|
|
"All the candidates were a little too diffident," according to Welch.
|
|
Again like Mitchell, he's a diffident dreamer whose heartstrings audibly twinge.
|
|
He was a bit of a bristlecone himself: deliberate, diffident, bemused.
|
|
He's forthright about his failures, and he's diffident about his putative triumphs.
|
|
"Landline," a fairly genial, diffident comedy about diffident, fairly generic people, plants its flag in 1995 and surveys a landscape of indie rock, "Must See TV" and the high-waisted bluejeans that have recently started coming back into fashion.
|
|
In his personal life, Strauss was diffident and shy; he shunned the limelight.
|
|
Brand is diffident, but refusing these grim freedom fighters is not an option.
|
|
It isn't diffident or condescending as it first seemed, rather it's casual, assured.
|
|
Jeffrey Cabot (Matthew Lieff Christian), is a diffident young fellow who teaches Renaissance literature.
|
|
But her strictures are meant as much for diffident voters as for the president.
|
|
We in New York and New England tend to take a more diffident approach.
|
|
Thoughtful, diffident guys throw caution to the wind occasionally in pursuit of sonic radiance.
|
|
Yola describes "Walk Through Fire" as "a breakup record" with her diffident former self.
|
|
Still, Mr. Macron, young, diffident and intellectual, is more often compared to President Barack Obama.
|
|
Mr Xi's less diffident approach was evident soon after he came to power in November 2012.
|
|
On the campaign trail, though, he was diffident and underpowered—except when the subject was Khan.
|
|
Diffident, aggressive and often startlingly funny, the storyteller Daniel Kitson brings his new work to Brooklyn.
|
|
I watched supporters go from diffident to bold, excited to feel part of something bigger than themselves.
|
|
Diffident, aggressive, humane and often startlingly funny, the storyteller Daniel Kitson brings his new work to Brooklyn.
|
|
What I tell these leaders, who are somewhat diffident about the president, I suggest they go see Mike.
|
|
He stepped out of the wings looking almost diffident in the spotlight, and soloed for two tantalizing choruses.
|
|
But the Democratic left was furious with the Obama administration for its diffident approach to filling judicial vacancies.
|
|
Mr. Wyeth is relatively low-key and somewhat diffident, yet they gradually come to understand each other's ambitions and anxieties.
|
|
While some conductors can sound diffident asking for changes, Mr. van Zweden has no shyness: He is polite, but blunt.
|
|
He was a diffident student, an outsider in a place he has often referred to as the middle of nowhere.
|
|
Its complacency was personified by the Gandhi family, whose members dominated the Party but appeared diffident and out of touch.
|
|
Allen is simultaneously nineteen years old and seven feet tall, and about as diffident as they come in the NBA.
|
|
Ms. Wells sings in a smoky alto, diffident but beckoning, and her fatalistic languor can be reminiscent of Lana Del Rey.
|
|
She's also still diffident and anxious when faced with a very handsome man in her delusional period, which makes no sense.
|
|
The first is the tendency of even a diffident, restive 14-year-old to criticize the premise of the program itself.
|
|
The tale, directed by Sean Mewshaw and written by Desi Van Til, pairs an ambivalent Ms. Hall with a diffident Jason Sudeikis.
|
|
As the German rich mingle with plutocrats elsewhere and their companies have globalised, they are starting to become a little less diffident.
|
|
An "insubstantial man", as he himself admits, he is diffident, filled with self-loathing, incapable of standing up to his bullying father.
|
|
The humor in the new show is of a different variety, though — softer, more diffident, more resigned, with an ephemeral, storybook quality.
|
|
Barack Obama was decidedly diffident to the press, believing he was smarter and knew better than anyone (or almost anyone) covering him.
|
|
After arriving at Hong Kong University (HKU), he discovered that students there were not diffident at all but instead stereotypical, opinionated MBAs.
|
|
Johnson, a rangy, diffident thirty-six-year-old animator, roved to and fro, a large pale moon orbiting a small fiery sun.
|
|
On arriving at Hong Kong University (HKU), he discovered that students there were not diffident at all but instead stereotypical, opinionated MBAs.
|
|
Today, he's sharing the latest in a string of singles "Tell Me How," which channels that alien approach into a diffident club track.
|
|
Mr. Jesuthasan, watchful and diffident behind a scruffy beard and a drooping lock of hair, has the taciturn charisma of a Hollywood gunslinger.
|
|
In the past decade, we've seen a flood of indie comedies about the diffident dating habits of young people living in American cities.
|
|
Mr. Jung is equally credible as a diffident, sensitive artist and an impatient boor, and Ms. Kim slides nimbly from demure to obnoxious.
|
|
In China itself regulations cap the involvement of foreign institutions, and Chinese banks, insurers and brokerages have been remarkably diffident about expanding abroad.
|
|
In the pilot, Josh kisses a boy for the first time and begins, in an endearingly diffident style, life as a gay man.
|
|
Booth D4 Two large oils by Joan Semmel at Alexander Gray overpower diffident abstractions by Betty Parsons in another compelling two-woman presentation.
|
|
The same women who are at first shown as diffident and shy become self-sufficient after setting up a factory and manufacturing 18,000 pads.
|
|
Indian music, he says, is a bigger influence on Alpha Male, with peak moments sounding like a diffident David Guetta scoring a Bollywood film.
|
|
Her prose is a strange amalgam of silver-spoon educational advantage (although she never attended college) and a diffident vernacular suspicious of fine language.
|
|
He seems gentle, diffident but steely underneath, while there's a sparkle to her, and a healthy dash of punk spicing her earth-mother serenity.
|
|
He has alienated his own department with deep budget cuts and a diffident style while never bringing in a full team of his own.
|
|
Greer Grimsley (Wotan) effectively walked a challenging line that balanced vocal strength — conveying the god's power — with an almost diffident uncertainty — revealing his self-doubt.
|
|
This new, less dilatory mode doesn't ask to be understood, but haunts us with a bleakly dead-on, diffident humor about the pain of being alive.
|
|
Mr. Salonen's piece was light years removed from the performance that opened Friday's concert: a diffident, sometimes messy reading of Brahms's Violin Concerto by Leonidas Kavakos.
|
|
His often diffident leadership style has caused needless confusion; economic liberalisation has been slow; and he has shown less appetite than expected for taking on vested interests.
|
|
I interviewed the 6 foot 4 inch-tall singer-songwriter two years ago in Paris and he was more diffident, wary, hunched over in an old coat.
|
|
Sarah is the expensively educated daughter of a divisive political pundit, while Lauren is a diffident associate editor at a press that publishes cookbooks by celebrity chefs.
|
|
But diffident Nathan doesn't seem to mind, and Marion is more a Marxist than a Freudian anyway: It's money, not love, that makes her world go round.
|
|
Honor Swinton Byrne plays a diffident version of the director's younger self in an elusive autobiographical film that also functions as a kind of superhero origin story.
|
|
In "Faces in a Mirror: Memoirs from Exile" (1980), Princess Ashraf described herself as volatile, quick-tempered and rebellious, a sharp contrast to her shy, diffident twin brother.
|
|
A diffident literature student (Betty Schneider) finds herself enmeshed in two plots — that of "Pericles" and the intrigue surrounding the mysterious death of an exile from Franco's Spain.
|
|
In "Knight of Cups," the man's name is Rick, and he is played, with mopey eyes, a diffident half-smile and a scruff-bedecked chin, by Christian Bale.
|
|
The citizenry depended on the two of them to do the heavy lifting of optimism and the good works necessary for the diffident functioning of the social contract.
|
|
A diffident figure, he lacks his predecessor's showmanship, and indeed would not have been running at all had his United Democratic Party's chosen candidate, Ousainou Darboe, not been jailed.
|
|
When the diffident Hosszu dons her swimsuit and stuffs her schoolteacher's hair bun into a latex racing cap, she turns into a superhero with reserves of stamina and confidence.
|
|
Structurally, "Silk Stockings" is similar to "Funny Face," another musical ode to Paris released earlier in 1957, wherein Mr. Astaire's glib fashion photographer successfully wooed Audrey Hepburn's diffident beatnik.
|
|
It took some time, but the woman understood that the child was funny in her diffident and sideways way; the child understood that the woman was a terrific cook.
|
|
Fulminating with contempt for England and disdain for the daily grind, he bangs out vitriolic screeds on an old typewriter, the confrontational prose at odds with his diffident manner.
|
|
Or maybe you like the current wave of diffident comedies about young gentrifiers looking for love and risking embarrassment on streets that aren't so much mean as mildly inconsiderate.
|
|
With a diffident style, Mr. Tillerson won few friends in Congress, in the career foreign service, in the news media, on embassy row or, most importantly, in the White House.
|
|
But in 2011, Mr. Ocasek gathered the surviving members of the Cars for a final album, "Move Like This," and a tour, although his stage presence had always been diffident.
|
|
Even after four years as president and a quarter-century in public life, Mr. Bush seemed to many Americans a distant and diffident figure, a caretaker without strong purpose or compelling strategy.
|
|
If it weren't for a teasing scene at the beginning and the existence of reviews like this one, you might mistake "Colossal" for a certain kind of diffident, funny-sad, exasperating drama.
|
|
But the neutral, diffident sentiment and still-reserved level of risk-taking among professional and institutional investors is a net positive and would limit the depth of a setback, all else being equal.
|
|
In The Scenic Route (1978), intimations of Orpheus and Euridice by way of Gluck color a New York beset by random violence and a love triangle between two sisters and their diffident lover.
|
|
An insistence on the unassimilable weirdness of human life appears in all of them, and they all have the same diffident sense of humor, one that feels very much like a defense mechanism.
|
|
Whereas the blue wave of the midterms filled Democrats with confidence and swagger, fear of placing a single foot wrong in the 2020 run against Trump has left too many diffident and mousy.
|
|
But no matter whether he was portraying a younger man, like the diffident Onegin, or an older one, like Verdi's troubled Simon Boccanegra, stage directors usually preferred his silvery mane to any wig.
|
|
Diffident and depressed, she marries a bland former airman and accepts a clerical job at a vaguely defined French-English cultural organization, even as she engages in clandestine affairs to keep her life interesting.
|
|
Domenico, the oldest son of a small-town, working-class family who barely looks old enough to shave, is wary and diffident, equally flummoxed and fascinated by the ways of the adult, urban world.
|
|
At the heart of Lemaitre's twisted workplace thriller is a diffident, unassuming 57-year-old businessman, Alain Delambre, who has been unable to land a job after having been laid off four years ago.
|
|
Downstairs, the diffident, intensely self-conscious paintings of Alex Kwartler's "Snowflake" are named after poems by Frank O'Hara and Emily Dickinson, among others, but the poet they made me think of was A.R. Ammons.
|
|
The entire cast — including Ben Stiller as Sandler's successful, high-strung half brother; Elizabeth Marvel as their diffident sister; and Emma Thompson as Hoffman's flighty third wife — is fabulous, as is Baumbach's witty, thoughtful script.
|
|
My favorite of the American films, Ingrid Jungermann's "Women Who Kill," is a comedy so low-key and diffident, not to mention morbid, that it can take several beats to catch on to the jokes.
|
|
It's not the slouch of an old man, not stiff — or the diffident slouch of a young one, for that matter — it's somehow part of his movement, closer maybe to how boxers crouch, but relaxed.
|
|
He was diffident about engaging with it, and as a result, his career, after a much-noticed start in the 1960s — biennials, prizes — slowed way down outside of France where, at 90, he still lives.
|
|
I wrote a post the other day on how Fox (or rather, right-wing media generally) has blitzed the Green New Deal, uniting the right against it even as the left remains divided and diffident.
|
|
This is the character we meet first in the stage version, a diffident bourgeois gentleman named Arthur Kipps (David Acton), who arrives with a bulky manuscript containing his description of ghastly adventures of years earlier.
|
|
The cast members' British accents and diffident manners help provide (to American ears, at least) a polite, cushioning distance from accounts of some projects that might objectively (or do I mean subjectively?) be described as inhumane.
|
|
I don't buy it / want / not / them, whee That guy says The impotence of whiteness is the cause of the spread of facism: for a (rich) white audience, integer lone in my checking, diffident (as Bad).
|
|
Though he has knocked on the door, and the door is open, as the door is always open during your office hours, and you have greeted him and invited him inside, still he appears hesitant, diffident-seeming.
|
|
Armstrong's progress from pilot to celestial pioneer traces an epic arc, and like some of the ancient epics "First Man" is primarily a character study, a space odyssey with a diffident and enigmatic Ulysses at its center.
|
|
Whereas Bobby before had a slew of girlfriends, lending him the air of a diffident playboy, this Bobbie is on the rebound from a range of boyfriends, none of whom are quite right (or likely father material).
|
|
In interviews he was often diffident and obliging, agreeing with whatever the interviewer said in order to allow them to project their own exegeses onto him and then go away and write up their own versions of him.
|
|
In "Fascinator for Abby Abstract," a spiral of thin lines is ornamented with half-moons of magenta and blue; in "Fascinator for Hyped-up Harriet," a small yellow circle perches atop a lavender bow like a diffident moon.
|
|
Early on in "Bill Frisell: A Portrait," Mr. Frisell, a quiet, diffident man, tells an off-camera interviewer that when he gets up in the morning, he picks up a guitar, starts playing "and then …" he drifts off.
|
|
Then there are the uncertain suitors of Elinor and Marianne, who include the diffident Edward Ferrars (Jason O'Connell, who doubles hilariously as his character's loutish younger brother), the roguish John Willoughby (John Russell) and the stalwart Colonel Brandon (Edmund Lewis).
|
|
For many years, as I mulched and pruned, I imagined a Morty of my own: a charming and diffident librarian, a fine public servant whose wife sold their modest house in preparation for a life in a comfortable retirement home.
|
|
Martin, less diffident, included in his book a list of sixty-two "essential" progressive-rock albums—partly to provide a shopping list for newcomers, and partly, one suspects, because he liked the idea of outraging hard-core fans with his omissions.
|
|
However long that process lasts, it will have to unfold in a sequence of diffident baby steps, very much like the ones achieved here Tuesday night, when the Americans fought to a 231-24 draw in an exhibition match against Portugal.
|
|
Joining three other rocks on a postcard of the combed-gravel garden at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, the drawing becomes a diffident little stand-in for the artist himself, offering a brief but unmistakable blip of self-referential satori.
|
|
The Chicago bookseller Stuart Brent is one of many who remember him as a good listener, an essentially diffident man who was "quiet and careful in his speech"; he also stole books from the store, as Brent later discovered to his dismay.
|
|
For 17 months, ever since she lost her Conservative Party its majority in an unnecessary, vainglorious election, the news media has been speculating daily on how long this private, dutiful, diffident leader can last and when the bid to topple her will begin.
|
|
She had a superb partner in Mr. Muntagirov, a sensational but often diffident dancer who came into his own here, showing an elegance of line, sparkling turns, soaring jumps and a physical and facial expressiveness that made every emotion and impulse transparent.
|
|
"When I first met Tina Fey — beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say — I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," writes Baldwin.
|
|
"When I first met Tina Fey — beautiful and brunette, smart and funny, by turns smug and diffident and completely uninterested in me or anything I had to say — I had the same reaction that I'm sure many men and women have: I fell in love," he writes.
|
|
A strapping figure with a hardened mien to match, he was sitting one day in front of Martin's desk, diffident and deflective as usual, when from behind him, Martin's dog, a large boxer-shepherd mix named Cassie, approached and settled her head on the Marine's arm.
|
|
That was true of the rich New York kids in Mr. Lonergan's play "This Is Our Youth," from 1996, and it's no less true of the grown-up citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts here, even if they are too diffident or too busy for sociological self-consciousness.
|
|
It is striking, for example, to see that, during its convention in Cleveland last week, the Republican Party fully acknowledged the threat of terrorist violence to the "civilized world," and decided to run its presidential campaign on the "law and order" platform, while Europe's diffident political elites show no similar resolve.
|
|
Punctuated by Ms. Distler's projections of Delany family photographs and images that conjure the worlds Sadie and Bessie knew, "Having Our Say" is equal parts a portrait of these two disparate personalities — Bessie ornery and headstrong and Sadie diffident and sweet — and a chronicle of the century they lived through.
|
|
The key ingredient (beyond the writing, much of it by the playwright Matt Cameron, one of the show's creators) is the casting of Guy Pearce as the diffident, depressed Irish, who, like any good Philip Marlowe clone, likes to be left alone but can't keep quiet when he sees injustice.
|
|
He began to experiment with new subject matter — retelling the story of Shakespeare's Shylock in "Overtime" (1996), probing the Middle East conflict in "O Jerusalem" (2003) and crossing the ocean to set his diffident alter ego to roam (and get lost) in Japan in his poignant, autobiographical "Far East" (1999).
|
|
It's only 3pm, but as I ascend the staircase and enter the main room the place is already busy, with around twenty guys hanging around nursing bottled beer, as yet too diffident to approach the group of girls in underwear laid on a huge bed in the centre of the dance floor.
|
|
Portrayed with wide-eyed curiosity and a diffident mien by the British actor Paul Hilton, Forster steps out of the past and into the play's opening scene like a tutelary don strolling through a campus quad, where clean-cut acolytes sprawl and frolic like models for a J. Crew back-to-college catalog.
|
|
This year, its 28th in New York, the fair has also introduced a diffident handful of curated booths, including the writer and curator Paul Laster's Relishing the Raw: Contemporary Artists Collecting Outsider Art (A8), in which Mr. Laster teases out suggestive connections between contemporary artists and their own personal collections: It's like listening to a British Invasion rocker talk about his favorite blues records.
|
|
The final section of his 22005 collection "And the Stars Were Shining" has these lines: I've told you before how afraid this makes me, but I think we can handle it together, and this is as good a place as any to unseal my last surprise: you, as you go, diffident, indifferent, but with the sky for an awning for as many days as it pleases it to cover you.
|
|
Photograph by Robert Vinas, Jr. Courtesy the Estate of Malcolm Morley / Sperone Westwater In the mid-sixties, Morley uncorked a novel style—painstakingly copying banal postcard, travel-brochure, and calendar images of ships and vacation spots or of reproduced paintings, most notably Vermeer's "The Art of Painting"—which art historians generally credit as the starting gun for Photo-Realism, a movement that engaged scores of painters in diffident imitations of the camera's Cyclopean eye.
|
|