The phrase "a reticent man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man who is reserved or reluctant to speak freely.
Example: "Despite his impressive qualifications, he remained a reticent man during the interview, offering only brief responses."
Alternatives: "a reserved man" or "a taciturn man."
By some accounts, one pioneer in the avocation was a reticent man named Vern Gillman, who lives in Harlem and who made his first subway cars, humbly but perfectly, out of cardboard.
When Robin died suddenly of meningitis the day before his sixth birthday, Barbara recalls that little was said – she sees her father as a reticent man who embodies his own parents' Victorian attitudes.
This neutrality is a perfect starting point for the rendering of a novel in which a reticent man finds himself drawn increasingly into the more flamboyant lives of others, particularly of one mysterious tycoon named Jay Gatsby and a reckless rich girl called Daisy.
In 1960 Mr. Woodthorpe created the role of Aston, a reticent man living alone in a cluttered top-floor room of an abandoned house in a poor London district, who takes in an old derelict, in Harold Pinter's first smash hit, "The Caretaker," opposite Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates.
Ive's aesthetic is not austere: one could think of the work done here as a reticent man's idea of exuberance, with rapture expressed in the magnetic click of a power adapter.
A large, reticent man of fifty who prefers gestures — an upturned eyebrow or a curled lip — to words, he has spent nearly as many hours underneath the earth as above it.
A playfully reticent man — asked via e-mail for a brief biography, he responded, "1943- " — Millhauser is rarely heard from outside his fictions, seeming to prefer to reflect himself in tales as eerily distanced as they are lushly beautiful.
With sly brilliance Mr. Sarsgaard presents Trigorin as an awkward, reticent man transformed by a worshipful public into a closely watched dandy.
In person, Ivar Kreuger was an odd, reticent man, originally a civil engineer.
In one village, Gaddopur, his theory was borne out in the tale of a gaunt, reticent man named Mahesh Kumar, who went to work in a factory 300 miles away so his family would no longer have to live as serfs, tending the animals of the upper caste.
