Sentence examples for reticent for from inspiring English sources

Subsequent leaders have been reticent for strategic reasons.

Colom, who was fifty-seven, was unusually reticent for a politician.

But his voice stays reticent; for all his sincere efforts, he's pallid.

Blessed are the reticent for they shall inherit the earth, but who wants to inherit a cacophonous earth?

So it is curious that she is emotionally reticent for the most part in her unfinished autobiography, "Illumination and Night Glare".

Ritter, who is soft-spoken and oddly reticent for a politician, told Feld that the film should help to tell the story of how Democrats have been winning in the West.

And it is cause enough for reticent churches, for communities, for lackadaisical leaders, for all people--no matter our race, color or creed--to find the collective will and the moral resolve to stamp out this human rights atrocity occurring right under our noses.

At the Vatican, Monsignor Scicluna's comments on Tuesday, rare for an official in the famously reticent Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, were part of a broader Vatican defense against the rising abuse scandal in Germany.

His comments, rare for an official in the famously reticent Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, were part of a broader Vatican defense against a rising abuse scandal in Germany, including a case that happened on the watch of Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005.

Though Zuckerman was cautious about the application of his monkey research to human questions, others were less reticent: a reviewer for Man, for example, looked forward to the day 'when we can observe the social behaviour of man by the same scrupulous techniques as that employed by Dr Zuckerman' (Fortes, 1932: 168 9).

Kim Kisduk is a director who has been able to combine, in a unique way, a facility for violence with a knack for reticent, even pastoral gentleness: a kind of Punk Buddhism.