Even the optimism of that novel's ending is strictly qualified by its guarded last words: "I realise, with a lifting of the heart, that it is not yet time to close the book".
WASHINGTON — A Virginia man charged with shooting a security guard at the headquarters of a prominent conservative organization told the guard "words to the effect of 'I don't like your politics,' " according to an affidavit filed in the case on Thursday.
An angry subject will guard his words less carefully.
It's not that Creamer, a 5-foot-10 point guard from Mendham, N.J., and Bucknell University, is guarding her words.
He isn't in the habit of guarding his words, and some of his more inflammatory comments — about the weakness of the German welfare state, for example, or the laziness of its workers — could be quoted disapprovingly.
Those subjects were guarded, careful with their words, aware of their message.
Yesterday, as the two readied to reunite tomorrow night for the first time since Ewing was traded to Seattle on Sept. 20, Van Gundy's words were guarded as he spoke to reporters on a conference call.
"Do you remember the first time you played against someone who could guard you?" The word "guard" probably needs a little explanation.
Machiavelli's evaluation of the chances for creating a new, psychologically flexible type of character is extremely guarded, and tends to be worded in conditional form and in the subjective mood: "If it were possible to change one's nature to suit the times and circumstances, one would always be successful" (Machiavelli 1965, 91, trans. altered).
It was a grand, red-stone home in the Italian villa style, on a hilltop, with a wide lawn and a stone obelisk on which were engraved the words "Guarding Our Future by Preserving Our Past".
