"circumspection in" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means being cautious and careful in one's actions or decisions. Example: The government needs to exercise circumspection in implementing new policies to avoid negative consequences for its citizens.
Mr. Junger also prefers circumspection in "Which Way".
Richard also showed greater circumspection in his patronage.
But then anyone with even the slenderest acquaintance with Shepard's work knows that "the American dream" is to be treated with circumspection; in Shepard's universe it's a false concept to be blown wide apart and splattered across all surfaces.
Broadly speaking, those countries that traditionally expect civil servants to behave with complete impartiality and to conform to ministerial policy with energy and good will, whether they agree with the policy or not, expect all civil servants to behave with circumspection in political affairs.
In a 1994 article for the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Roy Meadow abandoned his initial circumspection in favor of something like the deep-dyed specificity of the short story: "The perpetrating mother is commonly an alert, intelligent, and socially more aware person than her rather feeble, unenterprising husband.
He knows to be careful when going to a bar (there are no gay bars in Dothan after the only one closed recently) or when walking down the street with his partner who comes from Florida and wasn't used to such circumspection in public.
An atmosphere of extreme circumspection still prevails in official Washington.
Circumspection is important in his line of work.
Political issues were dealt with indirectly, and even greater circumspection was necessary in addressing anything related to sexuality or the lives of women.
"I need hardly describe the nature of popular entertainment or the stuff that's on the Internet," he began, displaying a circumspection seldom encountered in "Slouching Toward Gomorrah," his best-selling jeremiad about the decline of the West.
If this circumspection seems strange in an era of artistic commodification and cross-promotion, consider this: there is no precedent for a furniture retailer opening a Chelsea art gallery.
