As for mending relations with Islam, Mr Obama decided that this required some diffidence.
Building robotic traffic police and guides will make it easier for people to overcome their diffidence.
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But the desire for independence and diffidence towards outsiders also work against concentration and consolidation.
He may grow out of his diffidence, but this race seems to have come too early for him.
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It takes fearless self confidence to take the risk that our humility will be mistaken for diffidence or a deficiency in competitive fire.
Ms Merkel's diffidence arises from history: her country's and her own.
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Yet her diffidence and down-to-earthness was peculiarly suited to her country.
What may have been typical Japanese expressions of diffidence and unease with forthright action may have allowed this Chinese interpretation, even if it was a stretch at the time.
My question, remarkably, induces in him some diffidence.
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For once, Euro-diffidence is not one of them.
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What surprised me most was the timidity and diffidence, and maladroitness, of the young men, who basically huddled in a corner by themselves and stared at their shoes, while the young women were waiting to be approached.
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