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As Walsh points out, Debussy’s self-distrust considerably slowed his productivity, as he tested “every chord and chord sequence, every rhythm, every colour for their precise effect.”

Shy he would always be, but in place of his boyish self-distrust had come a quiet confidence in his own powers.

This spirit nourishes in him a wholesome self-distrust, and watchfulness over his temper and motives.—The meek man thinks as little of his personal claims, as the humble man of his personal merits.

The act has been characterised as the culmination of a certain tendency in English constitutional development; as the expression of self-distrust on the part of the monarch; and much more.

By-and-by my absurd self-distrust passed away, and I began to feel once more equal to the occasion.