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Especially interesting are the descriptors that are taken over from very different semantic domains, such as words that describe personality and character: aggressive, charming, diffident, honest, feminine, masculine . How can these descriptions be meaningful?
If you, like Donny Osmond, are among the 1-in-8 distressingly diffident Americans, a new drug can treat you.
I'm not sure I totally buy Strathairn as a diffident loner with an aching conscience over a tragedy that wasn't his fault--the quintessential guiltless sinner.
At the same time, I'm sure you will agree that Microsoft is somewhat diffident about playing politics.
His accent and modest, even diffident, manner led the Negro leaders to view him as much less than he was.