The phrase "a circumspection" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the quality of being cautious and considering all possible consequences before acting.
Example: "Her circumspection in making financial decisions has always served her well."
Alternatives: "a careful consideration" or "a cautious approach".
In the years since Sept. 11, that day has been revisited infrequently on American screens and with a circumspection that can feel like reluctance.
"I need hardly describe the nature of popular entertainment or the stuff that's on the Internet," he began, displaying a circumspection seldom encountered in "Slouching Toward Gomorrah," his best-selling jeremiad about the decline of the West.
Bishop and Methfessel shared a sense of humor, a yen for travel, and a circumspection about romance that was increasingly rare as the nineteen-seventies gave birth to women's lib and, before long, to radical lesbian separatism.
(Coverage from the national media leading up to Katrina's anniversary, I should note, has been far more contrite than it was in the aftermath of the storm — a circumspection, I hazard to guess, born in the wake of Super Storm Sandy).
A little circumspection, rather than a wild lunging chest-puffing attempt to impose his - apparently hugely important – personality on the tournament would be the way to go if I were temporarily transformed into him at about 9.45pm our time tonight.
Langella is superb, and "Starting Out in the Evening" is a classy film—I never thought I would hear the phrase "Trilling, Howe, and especially Edmund Wilson" uttered in a movie theatre but it could have used a little less circumspection, a little more juice.
Langella is superb, and "Starting Out in the Evening" is a classy film — I never thought I would hear the phrase "Trilling, Howe, and especially Edmund Wilson" uttered in a movie theatre — but it could have used a little less circumspection, a little more juice.
When the subject of my grandparents came up, a sudden circumspection would overcome the source.
One cannot, of course, easily draw the line between a prudent circumspection and unprincipled opportunism.
Athletes are often amazingly unformed as people, and much as I retain the naïve, nostalgic longing for them to be good in all ways, when they aren't it helps to exercise a little circumspection.
