But Ms. Murphy has an innate reticence that works against the theatricality this character can use.
Yes, James's reticence was strange against a player 13 years older and whom he towered over.
That reticence -- which goes against every rule in the current pop-marketing playbook -- may have worked to her advantage on the radio, said Doc Wynter, vice president of urban programming for Clear Channel Radio.
As if struggling against an innate reticence, the people in "The Man Without a Past" speak slowly and formally, and the antic poetry they utter sneaks up on you after a beat.
The literalness of the prose works against Bishop's natural reticence and rigor.
Even so, the association found that investors showed "reticence" when it came to voting against individual directors, even when there were recurring issues.
But her reticence is also ideological, a pushback against the notion that the Moroccan or the Afghan writer must grapple with political issues while the American or the French one is left to explore the questions of an individual life.
The Republican rebels are angry at their leadership's reticence to take more immediate steps against President Obama's immigration reform by using the budget as threat to shut down the government.
As for interviews, she gave them for years, but she clearly feared them, and her latter-day confessionalism, like her earlier reticence, may well have been a shield against that fear.
