Sentence examples for reticent style from inspiring English sources

This is partly because of the nature of her character's predicament and the way it is written, and due partly, perhaps, to her own more reticent style.

That the place actually has a singular Protestant pedigree is not much discussed, in keeping with the reticent style of a modest village on a hill.

Trott contrasted the former Yorkshire and Australia batsman's manner with the more reticent style of England team director Andy Flower.

Mr. Yudhoyono, a former general who rose up the ranks during Mr. Suharto's New Order government has, true to his reticent public style, not indicated which way he is leaning.

But if Ruiz (37-4) maintains his reticent public style, his profile will resemble that of Lennox Lewis, who holds the World Boxing Council and the International Boxing Federation belts.

So it came as no surprise that New York City Ballet commissioned a work from him in 1997, despite the possibility that Preljocaj's dark narrative streak might have sat uncomfortably within the company's own more reticent, formal style.

What critics admired--and what Carver's heirs would strive to emulate--was the book's lean, reticent prose style, which seems to register every detail with the same neutral intensity, the same dispassionate precision.

But even if Mangini does not fit into the Jets' future, his Belichickian opacity fits into the reticent colorless rhetorical style of those who fired him: the Jets' owner, Woody Johnson, and General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.

These photographs are as reticent and Puritan in style as could be imagined, capturing every aspect of the three families their houses, their rooms, their furniture, their land.

Scientists (naturally reticent in their communicative style) feel obliged to reel off lists of things they don't know, and forget to re-emphasise the (remarkably certain) link between human behaviour and climate change.

It has taken more time for the elegant fixed-gear bicycle to catch on in ever-reticent Paris, but the style is now decidedly in vogue.