Sentence examples for reticent there from inspiring English sources

The debate over whether a national bank should be established to assume the states' debts — Hamilton's farsighted invention — becomes an animated exchange, in which he emerges victorious by disparaging Thomas Jefferson: "Always hesitant with the President / Reticent — there isn't a plan he doesn't jettison".

For Dexter's more reticent palate, there are tofu cakes studded with ground beef and shrimp.

With their club down two games, Yankee fans had grown reticent, but there was one brave holdout, a woman in her late forties named Millie, who was relying on voodoo.

I have managed an Intensive Care Unit and been the person trying to initiate conversations about end of life and treatment options with healthcare professionals who were reticent to "go there" and family members who had never had conversations with the person lying in the bed--now semi-conscious, tangled in tubes and wires, and unable to communicate any longer.

But Mrs Merkel is an unusually private and reticent politician - there is no exhibitionism and grandstanding.

Weiner has remained politely reticent about his treatment there.

I would be very reticent to put a lot there because of the resistance to it, there's a negative side.

While Beckett was notoriously reticent about his work, there were exceptions.

There are reticent but firm suggestions that the brilliant cameraman was more committed to his work than to his marriage.

In the final pages of Hersey's "Hiroshima," he observed that many people he met there were often reticent to speak or even think about the ethics of the bomb; instead, they would offer approximations of "Shikata ga nai," a Japanese expression that he translated as "It can't be helped.

I love the objectivity, the you-decide-ism of American dancing, but reticence works only if there's something to be reticent about, and American classical choreography is notably shallow these days.