Sentence examples for reticent by from inspiring English sources

Two British memoirs seem reticent by comparison.

He comes across as reticent, by choice rather than by affliction.

As it happens, this is a reserved and almost reticent performance by Hoffman, who is the only character not eaten up with angst and self-doubt.

You have to scour the works of the great Baroque writers, artists and musicians to find even a trace of autobiography; and Velázquez is reticent even by their standards.

One thing is for sure: unless the government soon recognises that its biofuels policy needs reassessment, the US will have the dubious distinction of being the only country to fail on energy policy twice - first by being too reticent, and then by being too zealous.

The people who fit in this harshly beautiful corner of the world are Canadians of English and Scottish descent--reticent people, by and large, emotionally frozen or unwilling to express what they do feel.

Numerous requests to speak to branch owners were uniformly deflected by reticent workers.

With sly brilliance Mr. Sarsgaard presents Trigorin as an awkward, reticent man transformed by a worshipful public into a closely watched dandy.

Though yelling "Adriaaan" technically makes the children a collective Rocky and me Rocky's reticent girlfriend, played by the actress Talia Shire, to whom I bear little resemblance.

Mr Papaconstantinou, speaking after a meeting of European Union finance ministers and central bankers, played down the risk that a rescue loan could be held up by reticent European parliaments.

Ms. Sanders emphasized the White House's unyielding support for the demonstrators, which she contrasted to the more reticent approach taken by Mr. Obama in 2009 during protests that became known as the Green Movement.