circumspection

How To Use circumspection In A Sentence

• This is a very sensitive case requiring extreme circumspection.
• This may be understood either with respect to what immediately precedes, "If you are to reprove others for their sins, and would be faithful to your duty in this particular, you must look well to yourselves, and to your own behaviour and conduct" (and, indeed, those only are fit to reprove others who walk with due circumspection and care themselves): or else we have here another remedy or rather preservative from the before-mentioned sins; and this I take to be the design of the apostle, being impossible to maintain purity and holiness of heart and life without great circumspection and care. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
• The chapters do treat these issues briefly and with circumspection, but Leneman could have been bolder in pushing her analysis in this direction.
• One who goes touring on foot with a single volume in his knapsack reads with circumspection, pausing often to reflect, and often laying the book down to contemplate the landscape or the prints in the inn parlour; for he fears to come to an end of his entertainment, and be left companionless on the last stages of his journey. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
• And again, he adviseth to circumspection and care, even in the smallest matters; because, sometimes, _A little neglect may breed great mischief_; adding, _for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost_; being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail! One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed
• He, however, said that the very nature of the crisis demanded careful collective circumspection.
• She was beyond social niceties or circumspection or the deliberate creation of an effect and yet nothing she said contradicted what her life had always told us she was.
• But after the article below, I think I must be the epitome of caution and circumspection.
• I believe some degree of circumspection, if not caution, is warranted.
• A politic caution, a guarded circumspection, a moral rather than a complexional timidity, were among the ruling principles of our forefathers in their most decided conduct. Paras. 375-407