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He lightly amplifies four fairly reticent verses from the Acts of the Apostles, our only source.

He curls forward, "the scroll on a reticent cello," from his stance at the curve of the piano.

Sternberg was already a master of an ornamental bathos — brought out in shadows and objects serving to screen the action — that suggests a reticent distance from his characters.

Fashioned as a spare chase thriller, following a British-Asian teen (first-time actress Sameen Jabeen Ahmed) and her white boyfriend (Conor McCarron) as they seek refuge from her pursuing family on Yorkshire's mistiest moors (below), the film accumulates stomach-knotting tension even as it maintains a reticent distance from the hunters and hunted alike.

"The fact that we haven't been able to sign players over the last month or so when they were badly needed, I don't think in any way shape or form it was down to any reticent attitude from the chairman to provide the finance.

Hammer were not so reticent, deciding from the outset that they would deliberately pursue an 'X' Certificate.

The winners of the Helen Sobel Smith Life Master Women's Pairs on Saturday night, Sue Picus of New York City and Shawn Quinn, temporarily of Texas, benefited from reticent opponents in the diagramed deal from the final session.

Three focus groups were organized in Parakou with mothers of targeted children, two from the reticent sects and one from the non-reticent sect.

Now that we're a bit older and having had all our saving eviscerated by the meltdown four years ago, we're a bit more reticent about turning away from financial security even if it requires sacrifice of happiness over the short-term.

"I'm always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding, but it seems pretty clear that... this is it.

When teens and young women feel generalized pressure to "look like porn stars"; when boys don't seem to grasp that photographing and "fingering" a drunk, unconscious teen constitutes rape, and when anyone reticent about dragging sex from its private quarters to the well-lit mainstream is considered pathetic and prudish, there are some serious things to consider.

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