Sentence examples for rather reticent from inspiring English sources

Generally, in fact, the people of Hertford seem rather reticent on the subject of the Grail.

He was always rather reticent about the geography of his birth.

A hitherto rather reticent figure, Mr Jonathan was welcomed warmly at home and abroad after filling the vacuum.

As for the stereotypical "left-wing feminism" of Hodges's imagination, it's actually rather reticent about differentiating between "women" and "mothers".

Its rather reticent and blending quality is perhaps caused more by the highly specialized reed than by the instrument's inherent qualities.

He found him there—"a very nice, delicate man," he wrote me, "rather reticent, and wondering whether or not to encourage you to come down"—and a few days later came a note from Barbette himself consenting to see me.

The darker undercurrents to the Schubert that were sometimes suggested in the piano accompaniment never surfaced in Meneses's rather bleached, reticent sound and politely fastidious approach.

There's a kind of uncontrollable honesty in her which makes you understand why, given the opportunity, she'd rather be reticent.

There's an intimacy that the poem establishes here with the "you" and with us as readers that suggests a kind of implied, shared knowledge that the poem nonetheless does not openly declare and doesn't specify but rather remains reticent about.

He's sitting here at my desk now, looking not frightening or tell-tale but rather plaintive, reticent and melancholy.

When she first appeared on the show, in 2013, she seemed rather shy and reticent.