The young man paused, turned back, and said after a moment in his calm, rather diffident voice, "I don't understand."

Speaking in a low, diffident voice, Ellis said he suspected that a lot of her problem had been crushing loneliness.

From the shadows behind Old Hastur, a young and diffident voice spoke up.

The Special Counsel had a diffident voice which matched his colorless appearance.

Then he said, speaking in a low, diffident voice: "I'm lookin' for the editor."

A slightly diffident voice spoke from behind Rick.

Crowder's diffident voice came from behind me, a polite intrusion.

"I've often thought, you know, that that was really the best way to stop war," put in a diffident voice from the other end of the table.

In a diffident voice she asked, "You have noticed changes in me?"

There was a throat-clearing noise behind him, and a diffident voice; "Hi, Miles."