On Tuesday, after hitting five balls in the water during his practice round, it was a reserved, slightly wary and occasionally terse Woods who took questions about the continuing fallout from his highly publicized scandal.
An anonymous portrait from the mid-1780s depicts an elegantly dressed man with an intelligent expression, at once probing and slightly wary, who could pass for a courtier at Versailles.
As he huddled in a chair, looking frail and slightly wary, his three sons hovered about him protectively.
How do you like that?" The staff looked happy but slightly wary, like kids taken to a nice restaurant by a demanding parent.
Light, slightly wary, exploratory, sticking to a book of standards that he has performed thousands of times but that keeps offering him new ways in, his playing stays eternally fresh.
For the writer of such a pointed, polemical satire, there is something watchful and slightly wary about Wade.
All of which are given more or less equal weight in terms of his "creative processes," a lever-and-pulley system of solitary customs and slightly wary human interactions that fuse work ethic, personal relations/fixations and spiritual aspirations into a full, quizzically off-center life.
He had just returned from a data-collecting tour of Africa, where he spent fifteen months hacking his way across nearly two thousand miles of uncharted tropical forest — a journey he calls the Megatransect — and he was slightly wary of the polite society that had gathered to hear him talk about his adventure.
And do so even if 25 years of not-entirely-dissimilar titles, an obstinate refusal to get over your personal favourite and an aversion to motion control questing have left you slightly wary.
