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Updated: May 2, 2025
The self-distrustful Ernest now rested his immediate hopes on the fashionable clothes he intended to wear.
It was desperate the crisis, as she told herself, of her life and fate. The result was singular. Never had she been more vividly, more electrically, alive. Never had she been more diffident and self-distrustful. And this complexity of sensation served to press home on her the high desirability of insurance against accident, of washing clean, as far as might be possible, the surface of the slate.
One timid, self-distrustful temperament needs frequently to bask in the sunshine of your approval, while another, somewhat predisposed to vanity and self-consciousness, feeds a more bracing moral climate.
"It is too late," he has said to himself and has become self-distrustful and henceforth for ever useless. He who does not WISH to see the height of a man, looks all the more sharply at what is low in him, and in the foreground and thereby betrays himself.
Finck, "that what he was composing was worth while, so, in the matter of playing in public, he was so self-distrustful that when he came on the stage and sat down on the piano stool he hung his head and looked a good deal like a school-boy detected in the act of doing something he ought not to do.
Why was he so self-distrustful, so absurdly diffident of responsibility, so bent on hiding his great gifts under a bushel? The tutor smiled sadly, and, sitting down, buried his head in his hands and said nothing for a while. Then he looked up and stretched out a hand towards a book which lay on a table near. It was the Réveries of Senancour. 'My answer is written here, he said.
Face and figure were perfect; nor was there in the world any thing more graceful and more lovely than the image there, though the one who looked upon it was far too self-distrustful to entertain any such idea as that. Then she seated herself and waited. The time moved slowly, indeed, as she waited there. After a few minutes she found it impossible to sit any longer.
Bianca's voice, which had the self-distrustful ring of modern music, suited her personality. A glance passed between Stephen and his wife. "That's B. all over!" it seemed to say.... "Hound Street, where they live, is a horrid place." It was Thyme who spoke, and everybody looked round at her. "How do you know that?" asked Cecilia. "I went to see." "With whom?" "Martin."
What would his friends have said if they had been told that the religious enthusiasm of this gentle, self-distrustful, melancholy man, might, in its very innocence of suspicion and self-seeking, be perverted to dangerous uses in unscrupulous hands?
"Though my suit should ever prove hopeless, in the depths of my heart I will acquit you of all blame. You have been what you promised a true friend, nothing more. But please understand me. I ask nothing now, I am not worthy. Perhaps I never shall be. If so, I will not bind you to me with even a gossamer thread. I have too deep a respect for you. But I am so self-distrustful!
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