reticent

How To Use reticent In A Sentence

• BRODY: They had to deal with that, and so they're reticent to a certain degree to kind of delve into some of the faith issues as it relates to the political environment, if you will, because they know that he can get a lot of backlash. CNN Transcript May 6, 2009
• During my brilliant interview, my philologist was a bit reticent. Fateful Realizations of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
• The British are still reticent about their deepest fears - class war, a reversion to economic feudalism, the spectre of an all-dominant and all-vapid consumer society.
• He was otherwise extremely reticent about the place, as all who have passed through its towered gateway are.
• It is an old-fashioned, admirably reticent film that succeeds not through daring but by avoiding the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama.
• Mr. Catlin, who could hardly be called reticent, at once made plain his feeling about the Missouri, the river that was to carry them some two thousand miles into the mysterious reaches of the West. The Berrybender Narratives
• Into the stunned silence that followed this outburst from short-spoken, reticent Olive, there came a new voice; such a sweet, lovely voice with Six Girls A Home Story
• In her description of places our authoress is equally reticent, and yet with what consummate power she places them before our eyes! Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
• Yet other Florida Republicans were less reticent. Times, Sunday Times
• Hundreds of skinny, barefooted, dust-covered imps beg outsiders for money, pens and sweets - the adults are a little more reticent.