Van Hove and De Keersmaeker, both of whom are accustomed to commanding a room, took turns approaching Sondheim, almost diffidently.
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Told mainly from Ada's point of view — her tone repetitive, restrained, diffidently fantastical — the novel traces a life warped, then destroyed, by desire.
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"I wrote a string quartet that I very diffidently mentioned to the Emerson Quartet," he told the critic David Patrick Stearns in 20083.
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People say clever things that might sound cruel in a different accent, while looking at the tops of their shoes or diffidently tossing their heads.
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As head of the congressional oversight panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Warren regularly raked Geithner over the coals for treating financial institutions too gently and homeowners too diffidently.
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Every 216 feet or so, a female fan — some were in their teens, others in their 218s — would cut in, diffidently asking for a selfie with this former teen idol from Mexico City.
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The pink-cheeked little boy in sailor pants in "The Pause That Refreshes," for example, activates the homoerotic potential of Mantegna's nearly naked Hermes — not to mention of the collage's title, an early Coca-Cola ad slogan — just by diffidently waving hello.
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Under the rule of an ineffectual king, played by David Tennant (a company veteran before his television fame in "Doctor Who"), Britain is descending into disorder as the cycle begins in "Richard II." The first scene finds Richard diffidently presiding over a bitter conflict between Henry Bolingbroke (Jasper Britton) and Thomas Mowbray (Christopher Middleton).
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"Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited" was a variation on "Cherry Blossom Clinic", a track from the group's debut album, taken at a slower pace, the first verse diffidently spoken by Wayne, recorded without any strings or brass, and interpolating a medley of classical tunes including works by Bach and Tchaikovsky, played on guitars.
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According to Gaidai, Varley has won him with her ingénue charms, but she later opined that one particular episode might have proved to be the decisive one. > ...So I came to the Mosfilm, read a script fragment and did the donkey > scene. Then Gaidai asks me, somewhat diffidently: 'And now, Natasha, could I > ask you perhaps to undress - down to a swimming suit?' 'Sure', I said, and > did.
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At the reception, she diffidently asks Ransome for a loan of $1,000. He points out that this would wreck her reputation in Ranchipur, and moved by her disappointment, he agrees to help her get back to school somehow. It has been raining off and on, but it begins in earnest, now, and continues through the film until the end. Fern runs away from home and turns up soaking wet in Ransome’s bungalow.
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Meantime, Grace has had no luck in Hollywood, finding it difficult to get any work at all. Sent to Wilson Crumb, he diffidently offers her a semi-nude part requiring a nude audition, and in a weak moment, she accepts. :"As she went, she left behind all her self-respect and part of her natural modesty." The other side of Slick Allen's smuggling operation is drugs … sold through Wilson Crumb in Hollywood.
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Due to impressing several influential officers in a game of whist and his record from the Renown, Hornblower was appointed commander into the sloop of war Hotspur. Hornblower "diffidently" asked Bush to be his first lieutenant; Bush, for his part, was hoping to be asked. Bucentaure, the dismasted ship).Auguste Mayer's picture as described by the official website of the Musée national de la Marine (in French) After the Hotspur was wrecked off Brest, Bush served as a junior lieutenant aboard , a ninety-eight gun ship of the line during the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Mary "Molly" Alden Childers In autumn 1903, Childers travelled to the United States as part of a reciprocal visit between the Honourable Artillery Company of London and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts of Boston. At the end of the official visit he elected to remain and explore New England on a hired motorcycle. One day by chance the machine broke down outside the Beacon Hill home of Dr. Hamilton Osgood, a prominent physician in the city. Childers diffidently knocked to borrow a spanner and was invited in for dinner and introduced to Dr Osgood's younger daughter, Mary ("Molly") Alden Osgood.
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