Sentence examples for cautious speech from inspiring English sources

One thinks particularly of Geoffrey Whitehead's ambitious priest, with his nervous gaze and clinched, cautious speech.

Yet Mr. Haitink is genuinely self-effacing, a man of gentle demeanor and cautious speech, with notable exceptions.

He gave a cautious speech that American foreign-policy types said was in part aimed at his nervous clientele at home.

This brisk dismissal will not wash the traducing of Oxford away.Nor can such a cautious speech have inspired the core Labour supporters who in successive recent non-general elections have been failing to vote.

But in place of the mighty oratory one might have expected, the president delivered an inordinately long, unrepentant but ultimately rather cautious speech that eschewed the tub-thumping and delivered a little bit to everyone (see article).There were alternatives to the middle course he chose.

Although the president's address was billed in the US media as a "cautious victory speech", experts warn that the world's largest economy is far from free of trouble.

Obama's cautious, infuriating speech won't reform the system in all the ways that N.S.A. critics want, but it just might help Congress do so.

But his remarks were notably more cautious than a speech Wednesday night by the Fed's vice chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, who said the Fed might be justified in taking new action simply as insurance against the looming risks from Europe and elsewhere.

Julia Payne, Mr. Clinton's spokeswoman, said that the former president had turned down some speeches because they "may have appeared to be a conflict," and that he and his agent were "very cautious" about the speeches he accepts.

At other times, only ripples of polite applause greeted her cautious, workmanlike address, filled with calls to tackle stagnant wages and stalled social mobility that could have come from any Democratic stump speech.The mood was friendly, but hardly electric.

On Sunday, Brazil gave Obama's speech a cautious welcome.