Sentence examples for rather closed from inspiring English sources

Nor that his personality is rather closed, reserved, even secretive.

"I perceive the group as a very political organization that is rather closed to divergent points of view," she said.

This can only be a good thing for theatre, which is often seen as being rather closed and clubby.

In three decades, a rather poor, rather closed country, its business and political enterprise alike tied down by an outdated philosophy, has become a middling rich one.

"There's an image of the Foreign Office being rather closed and perhaps a little old-fashioned in its ways of working," says Fraser.

Crossrail says the higher percentage is the result of a concentrated strategy to offer opportunities to those living locally and to get young people into the tunnelling industry – in doing so revitalising a workforce that is both ageing and traditionally a rather closed shop, with word-of-mouth and informal contacts key to securing a job.

He said he was not preparing a lawsuit against the governor and was not aware of anyone who was. "We've been rather closed-mouthed about it because what we're interested in is serving his interests and not anyone else's agenda," he said.

However, with Google's theatrical — and very public — anti-RTBF lobbying efforts, the WP29's rather closed-box approach risks becoming problematic.

People sit in open carrels, rather than closed offices; dress is casual.

"Rather, the closed smartphone architecture is the canary in the coalmine for all of consumer computing.

Most companies are reorganized rather than closed, simply because creditors can squeeze more from a live company than a dead one.