Sentence examples for circumspect character from inspiring English sources
His favorite -- he couldn't get enough of it -- was the tale of the mythical warrior Amir Hamza, whose close encounters with demons, dragons and giants come straight from folk tradition, but whose valiant and circumspect character corresponds to a Persian ideal of the princely hero.
An actor himself (he recently played Scott Templeton, the journalistic rat on "The Wire"), Mr. McCarthy scrupulously avoids big moments and telegraphed emotions, and Mr. Jenkins, a durable character actor known to HBO subscribers as the spectral father on "Six Feet Under," plays his repressed, circumspect character with exquisite tact.
Because Nietzsche, however, is an anti-realist about value, he takes neither his positive vision, nor those aspects of his critique that depend upon it, to have any special epistemic status, a fact which helps explain his rhetoric and the circumspect character of his "esoteric" moralizing.
Ms. DuVernay takes her time with Ruby, a circumspect, retiring character whose story surfaces in realistic conversations, and in phone calls and visits to the prison.
Song Ci wrote: In all doubtful and difficult inquests, as well as when influential families are involved in the dispute, [the deputed official] must select reliable and experienced coroner's assistants and Recorders of good character who are circumspect and self-possessed to accompany him.
Her characters are no less circumspect: there are always things that they can't remember or can't discuss, periods of time that the reader can only guess at.
The central character, intent on reporting the scene as it is, remains circumspect throughout, delivering his or her conclusions only as evidence warrants.
Because she is more circumspect than Beth in her own life and tends to play controlling characters, Ms. McCormick said, she relishes the out-there quality of her current role.
The desires of Hill's characters are no less voracious, but his restraint in expressing them suggests a circumspect self-control, as well as an ethical component — an inherent (if sometimes unhealthy) awareness of others.
Like the characters in She Love Me, the gifts of Bock and Harnick are almost circumspect, until they burst forth and blow everyone away.
Sands supplies an instant character reference: "Having known John over decades, I would say he's a far more circumspect and considered political thinker than his reputation suggests.
