Kamala Harris, the California attorney general, who now may be the leading candidate, is famous for her center-seeking reserve and ideological circumspection; it is hard to imagine her leading a march anywhere.
To the extent that it is a memoir, albeit one marked by an unusual degree of circumspection, it resembles movies like Jonathan Caouette's "Tarnation" and Doug Block's "51 Birch Street," in which the confessional impulses of the filmmakers drive their investigations of family history.
If the judge at the original trial had access to the new guidelines his directions to the jury "would have been couched in terms of much greater circumspection and caution," it added.
His candour drowned out circumspection, as it invariably does.
Traders displayed no such circumspection when it came to British and Continental European stocks and currencies after the Brexit referendum.
In general, defenders of "traditional marriage" have learned to couch their arguments with increasing circumspection when it comes to outright judgments of morality.
"Ingrid" isn't that kind of book, for Chandler is the soul of circumspection when it comes to her subject's lesser flings or anything that smacks of salacious gossip.
(Coverage from the national media leading up to Katrina's anniversary, I should note, has been far more contrite than it was in the aftermath of the storm — a circumspection, I hazard to guess, born in the wake of Super Storm Sandy).
Like the textbooks, the museum seems aimed at replacing the prevailing culture in Japan -- an embarrassed circumspection about its 20th-century militarism -- with a muscular "my country, love it or leave it" spirit.
I see however, considerable circumspection in taking it on board even where clinical evidence is unambiguous about its advantages in issues such as cardiac illnesses, diabetes, mental depression, stress management and many others.
But if you look at what happened to the presidents who asserted their authority more sharply, with less circumspection about Congress, it turns out that Truman and his party were thrown out of office for the Korean War, Johnson was, in effect, forced to quit over Vietnam, and look at Nixon [who resigned under pressure]!
