Sentence examples for reticent that from inspiring English sources

Creed's work is so reticent that it seems scarcely to exist.

So reticent that, although a Conservative, he never claimed his seat in the Lords, eschewing his right to vote or speak for more than half a century.

By Connie Bruck Philip Anschutz is so reticent that his downtown complex has been referred to as "Leiweke country," for his C.E.O., Tim Leiweke.

" 'I wouldn't mind playing opposite him in a love scene.' " The rap on Mr. Depp is that the characters he creates are so emotionally reticent that he never really lets us get beneath their skins.

"To avoid the issue of competing with the lavish design treatments of most jackets, I suggested a plain white cover so pure and reticent that it would seem to place it in the context of the most esoteric art publications," Mr. Hamilton told Rolling Stone in 1991.

"I think I was a hell of a lot more reticent that your average chief executive - I only made one change [sacking Billy Davies in 2001] in my four years in charge.

I think we have to be very reticent about that.

A strangely reticent autobiography that links the silence after the Holocaust to other instances of silence.

The winner of this year's BP Portrait Award is the sort of reticent image that could quite easily be overlooked.

But now members of a reticent generation that came of age before the therapy culture and Oprah are excavating and disclosing their own personal histories -- warts, secrets and all -- examining the past to make the most of the years left to them.

Yet there is something weirdly reticent in that blandly handsome face.