In the warning against radical demands I heard Paéz's characteristic caution.
Mr. Bryant, with characteristic caution, said it was still too early to call it a recovery.
While the stalled politics of Northern Ireland appeared to be gaining traction, the people here reacted with characteristic caution.
"It's about the collective mindset, not about one man," Cotter said with characteristic caution.
Odysseus's elaborate and characteristic caution (he disguises himself as a beggar when he arrives home) is clearly what keeps him alive.
That decision partly reflects Mr. Obama's characteristic caution, but also a White House calculation: that "now" is too soon for the nation's political system.
The ARCA race was run a week before the Daytona 500, and Patrick displayed her characteristic caution, mostly avoiding the draft lines that formed, broke up, and re-formed ahead of her.
Democrats, despite their characteristic caution and fecklessness, have begun to speak candidly about Trump, but their status as the minority party renders them nearly irrelevant to Trump's fate.
Fast-forward eight months, past June's second inconclusive general election and through a tangle of political deals that have failed to deliver a government, and Spain's acting prime minister has lost none of his characteristic caution.
At an event organized by the local branch of her party, the Christian Democrats, Mrs. Merkel delivered remarks more redolent of the populism of the mass circulation newspaper Bild than her characteristic caution.
Becker makes it clear that he often proceeded with characteristic caution, acting only at the last minute or when forced to do so but ending up on the right side of history, and in plenty of time to make a big difference.
