Sentence examples for feeling guarded from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sherman, who is 35, and an independent business development consultant in New York, recalled feeling "guarded, cynical, jaded" about romance when he first met Ms. Felsen in October 1999.

Reporters get hate mail (it's a fact of life), so I was already feeling guarded about my online existence.

I am still feeling the weight of past relationships, still feeling guarded, and still yearning for emotional stability.

Indeed, it was thought that some people may wish to underplay (e.g. when feeling guarded) or overplay (e.g. if histrionic or help-seeking) how they were feeling at certain times.

His decades of experience taught him to keep his thoughts and feelings closely guarded to protect himself from all sorts of attacks, he said.

Although understandable to have these guarded feelings, feelings of self-doubt and of doubting the relationship, people dating after divorce at some point must open their hearts, let the wall down and truly embrace the person they are with, almost as if it was the first time -- like they were never married and divorced.

"When I met him, I had guarded feelings," said Mr. Carillo.

Doormen, taxi drivers, educated professionals, businesspeople, maids, students, young and old, all shared fresh, albeit guarded, feelings of pride in the country.

But there appeared to be little doubt that Mr. Bloomberg, for the first time, had spoken of his carefully guarded feelings, and had done so almost casually in remarks to about 100 people, most of them working journalists, at the home of the dinner's host, Greg Morey, at 38 East First Street.

But, though she later described "One Art" as "pure emotion," Bishop guarded her feelings in the final version's last stanza, pretending bravery.

D'Antoni was blunt in assessing his team's defense, saying: "I didn't have a good feeling about us guarding them man for man.