Sentence examples for reticently from inspiring English sources

Another reticently turns his back and looks off to the side, as if he's uninterested in returning the photographer's gaze.

Their reticently poetic realism bespeaks a commitment that is not only aesthetic but ethical, sacrificing formal ambitions to values of authentically experienced nature and domestic life.

A broken surface, made with slashes and stabs and unconcerned to cover every corner of the canvas, better caught the emotive reality of lived life, an unpredictable affair, sometimes reticently withdrawn, sometimes so exuberantly full that it could never be contained within the hard-edged line.

In his directorial screen debut, I've Loved You So Long, which won the 2009 Bafta for best film not in English, Kristin Scott Thomas was reticently compelling as a woman haltingly resuming life with her sister in eastern France, after 15 years in jail for an ostensibly unfathomable crime.

When Zall announced his discovery, or theory, of Coleridge's authorship of the 1821 translation, he was congratulated by fellow scholars but told that his case "would be better made if made more reticently", and it was suggested that he should wait until a more thorough stylistic proof was available.

(What an idea: that several women with whom Rick had flings years ago should still somehow loom large in his memory years later, and with frank — yet reticently abashed — delight in their bodies! Let other critics throw the first stone).

There were reasons, reticently guarded but strongly felt, that they did not want to make an issue of the case.

Anthony beamed into the camera as Albert reticently looked down at a game he was holding.