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And that eye could see past Dorothy’s drab uniform and Cindy Brady pigtails, her tall girl’s diffidence and her sweet girl’s shyness, to the bombshell smoldering underneath.—
Lili Anolik,
Vanity Fair,
12 Jan. 2026 -
There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.—
Armin Rosen,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2026
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Another centered on a teenage girl (Chloë Sevigny doppelgänger Emma Halleen), whose insecurities blind her to a life that is, on its surface, pretty good, finds a palpable sadness within the bedlam of the show.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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Fading are the insecurities and fears.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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Virgil Throckmorton has no self-doubt about his morality.—
Dan Heching,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
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Relentless self-doubt with a cognitive emphasis, rather than emotional fixation, preserves the tentativeness of beliefs and also avoids the dangers of premature closure.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Self-distrust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-distrust. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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