Sentence examples for habit of secrecy from inspiring English sources
We have a habit of secrecy and suspicion.
"But the governor hasn't done anything to make it better, and there has been a troubling habit of secrecy".
If so, it will never admit them openly, because of a sharp instinct for self-protection, a long habit of secrecy bred by oppression.
Meanwhile, for some Han Chinese, the Uighurs seem ungrateful and backward, pampered by the state with preferential policies, such as being allowed to have more children.These prejudices are fed by another Chinese failing: the habit of secrecy and censorship.
He twice prorogued Parliament, once to avoid a censure vote and then apparently to duck embarrassing questions from a parliamentary committee.Though the prime minister once campaigned as a crusader for accountability and openness, he has acquired the habit of secrecy.
Joe loves to be right and to tell other people that they are wrong, whether at the dinner table or on television, and his zeal comes into conflict with both Valerie's ingrained habit of secrecy and her natural reserve.
Defoe's talents of impersonation and habits of secrecy have left academics to argue over what he did actually write.
The sheer size and value of these collections occasionally triggered the ingrained habits of secrecy and possessiveness that you often encounter when dealing with wealthy private institutions.
An intelligent and quiet child, Nava retreated from an unhappy household — and from his alcoholic, abusive stepfather — into books, cultivating "habits of secrecy and loneliness," becoming "a sissy with fangs".
Wilson fights back in the media, but Plame, holding to long habits of secrecy, even after the C.I.A. has cut her loose, wants him to keep his mouth shut.
