Sentence examples for reticent account from inspiring English sources

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So this memoir is also a loving, properly reticent account of a creative marriage, including some of its very hard times — an almost fatal illness that Watt wrote movingly about in his fine book "Patient" — and what now sound like some very happy family times.

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Italian villagers shelter a group of Africans rescued from a Mediterranean storm; as time passes, the refugees grow more reticent, and their accounts change in ways that unsettle their hosts.

It works, he explained, but restaurants are obviously a bit reticent to hand out account numbers to mustachioed strangers.

That is, they adhere strictly to the creedal statements as well as writings of their tradition's most authoritative church fathers, but are less reticent to give fuller accounts of what the persons are and how they are related to one another and to God or the divine essence.

For me, Mr. Bronfman's honest and impeccably executed account was a little reticent.

Vaguely related: I'm excited to finally read Ray Raphael's "Cash Crop: An American Dream," a 1985 book sold to me as the definitive account of Northern California's reticent, highly organized communities of freelance marijuana farmers.

Gross, almost reticent, cites long excerpts from these accounts, which are deeply wrenching.

By some accounts, one pioneer in the avocation was a reticent man named Vern Gillman, who lives in Harlem and who made his first subway cars, humbly but perfectly, out of cardboard.

It's been nearly eight years since I died and I have been reticent to speak about it too soon, for fear of coloring my account with the profound emotions of the experience.

"A lot of his accounts sound more like tourist stories, so we're reticent to take everything he said at face value," Wade told LiveScience.

Several feminist scholars, most especially Ruth Hubbard (1990), have clearly pointed out the close parallels of Darwin's account of eager males competing with one another for access to reticent and choosy females with Victorian gender values (see also, Fausto-Sterling 1985/1992).

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