reticence

How To Use reticence In A Sentence

• His reticence about his past made them very suspicious.
• Such reticence, of course, is a cardinal sin in a media world that worships the gods of celebrity and fame.
• She was scrupulously kind to her, and the governess was scrupulously exact in all courtesy and attention; still that impassible, self-contained demeanor, that great reticence – it might be shyness, it might be pride, – sometimes, Ursula privately admitted, "fidgeted" her. John Halifax, Gentleman
• I can understand a certain descriptivist reticence to criticize improper use of the term, but will not give up the fight for its proper use. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Beg the Question”
• The theory will steamroll over subtle distinctions between candour and honesty, tact and politeness, reticence and stonewalling. The Times Literary Supplement
• In order to preserve this reticence, unslumbering care and many precautions were absolutely necessary. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
• He breaks out of his normal reticence and tells me the whole story.
• It's a dangerous, dramatic story, told with sombre reticence from the point of view of an inarticulate character no more able to analyse the forces that manipulate him than the clever 16-year-old boy (in "The Pearl Fishers"), at an Irish Catholic school in the 60s, being "groomed" by the priests in ways he hardly understands. The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review
• Life will be so much more wholesome when women propose marriage as men do and have a plain, frank talk about it instead of their eternal business of veils and reticences, fugitive impulses real or coquettish, modesties real or faked. We Can't Have Everything
• American _conversazioni_ have very generally proved a failure, from the rooted, frozen habit of reticence and reserve which grows with our growth and strengthens with our strength. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866