Diffidence used in a sentence

Diffidence in a sentence as a noun

Poverty is also thought to have caused the diffidence in performance in the marshmallow test[1].

Her reaction is one of diffidence, reluctance hes really quite a womanizer.

I think that Autobiography of Ben Franklin [3] teaches a few key lessons in the use of diffidence that harmonizes well with Carnegie's ideas.

But four-way stops give the Americans so many opportunities to demonstrate their well known diffidence and thinking of other drivers.

Rather than leading people to see the logical error of their ways, he moved toward displaying much more diffidence, which allowed others to save face when changing their opinions.

There are solutions, but they need a coordinated effort by Eurozone countries to overcome German diffidence towards potentially weakening the currency.

Their reasons for such diffidence, beyond the vagaries of sectarian politiCS, were rational enough, being based on the realisation that a new organisation unable to command the support of a large slice of the working class was doomed to failure.

Mochizuki apparently has some diffidence about communicating with the wider mathematical community.

On the other hand, every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to futurity: And the mind, sunk into diffidence, terror, and melancholy, has recourse to every method of appeasing those secret intelligent powers, on whom our fortune is supposed entirely to depend.

"He describes how he cultivated "the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.