Sentence examples for quite reticent from inspiring English sources

Close, normally quite reticent, then called the Yankees' tactics baffling.

So the military, generally speaking, is quite reticent about fighting wars.

"I see students who are quite reticent to give authoritative presentations in the very beginning," he says.

"It is being done very aggressively in cinema, but TV is quite reticent," Normal told the conference.

Congress should also take note that our Middle Eastern and European friends who advocate U.S. military action against Iran are usually quite reticent regarding their readiness to shed their own blood in a new Middle East conflict.

Ruthless, savvy, pragmatic, cheap (he mixed his own cockroach spray and watered down paint to save a few bucks), self-promoting, deceptive, well-connected, Fred Trump was clearly father to The Donald, though personally he was actually quite reticent.

Their manager, Edy Reja, was not quite as reticent as Guidolin to talk about the title, though he too insisted this was not the time to get carried away.

Peggy Loving, their daughter, is still alive and I wanted to meet her but most of all because I wanted to show myself to her — probably for approval most definitely — but when I met her she's quite shy and reticent like her father.

Such people are not so much reticent – often quite the reverse – as humble.

The winner of this year's BP Portrait Award is the sort of reticent image that could quite easily be overlooked.

Natalie doesn't quite understand why the husband she loves is more reticent than she about publicly proclaiming their beliefs in artistic freedom -- and in all threatened freedoms -- no matter the consequences.