How To Use Circumspection In A Sentence
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This is a very sensitive case requiring extreme circumspection.
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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)
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The chapters do treat these issues briefly and with circumspection, but Leneman could have been bolder in pushing her analysis in this direction.
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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
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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
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He, however, said that the very nature of the crisis demanded careful collective circumspection.
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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.
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But after the article below, I think I must be the epitome of caution and circumspection.
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I believe some degree of circumspection, if not caution, is warranted.
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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
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Now more than ever, the wise few must proceed cautiously and with circumspection.
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“I must work with circumspection in order to reply to their clamors,” he advised Forbes, because if anything went wrong “they would not hesitate to attribute it to the choice of the road.”
George Washington’s First War
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He even acknowledges that it is useful, and sometimes necessary, to break it, so that it be done with mildness, with modesty, and with circumspection.
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The frequentation of courts checks this petulancy of manners; the good-breeding and circumspection which are necessary, and only to be learned there, correct those pertnesses.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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When a superior commands with over-much gentleness and circumspection, besides the fact that he compromises his authority and causes it to be slighted, he so attracts and attaches his inferior to himself that often unconsciously he robs God of the devotedness which is His due.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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For the mind when it is wary and cautelous, and by way of diligent circumspection turneth herself many ways, may then as well be said to go straight on to the object, as when it useth no such circumspection.
Meditations
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However, it is possible that this effect may be found wherever Mesozoic faults are exhumed to the sea bed or surface, and exhumation data measured in adjacent fault blocks should be projected across these faults with some circumspection.
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Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme discipline of her sex and age.
The Portrait of a Lady
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Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme disciplines of her sex and age.
The Portrait of a Lady
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This is a very sensitive case requiring extreme circumspection.
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[408] "Sicut lex justissima, provida circumspectione sacrorum principum stabilita, hortatur et statuit ut quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur ....
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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And after the sergeant has read aloud an official declaration under the Official Secrets Act, and each one of them has separately signed an impressive form, Amory calls a jaunty Also los, bitte, meine Herren! across the hangar to a squad of policemen in dungarees who promptly lay their ladders against the British Leyland bus and swarm onto the roof, barking orders at each other until, with infinite circumspection, the backdrop is laid like a precious archaeological find on the concrete floor, and unrolled.
Absolute Friends
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This is a very sensitive case requiring extreme circumspection.
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Of course the circumspection of the local youth had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the proportion of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to make it a sensible pleasure was sufficient to redeem her maidenly career from failure.
Chapter IV
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Then he said that one should approach such issues with careful circumspection and logical evaluation.
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It would be an act of circumspection to discuss design issues relating to the Sydney Olympic Stadium at any level without first understanding the environment in which the project was to be delivered.
