This recording has Pollard playing the bebop heavyweight against Scott's glacial diffidence.
I have accordingly felt myself bound, tho with the greatest diffidence and respect, to enter this caveat.
With habitual diffidence she handed a new manuscript to me and took (to the Ladies) momentary leave.
A rapprochement with France and a continuance of the Irredentist movement could not fail to arouse Austro-German hostility; but, on the other hand, to draw near to the central powers would inevitably accentuate the diffidence of France.
In the opinion of the highest authority, Mark Pattison, "as a refutation of Scioppius it is most complete"; but there are certainly grounds for dissenting, though with diffidence, from this judgment.