Sentence examples for secretive past from inspiring English sources

LUNA GALE When a social worker takes on the case of two drug-addicted teenagers accused of neglecting their infant child, she opens a can of worms and becomes mired in the conflicts of a family with a secretive past in this new drama by Rebecca Gilman ("Spinning Into Butter").

The younger Bradley's quest for his father's strangely secretive past and the stories of the Easy Company flag-raisers behind "The Photograph," as he calls Joe Rosenthal's serendipitous Pulitzer Prize-winning shot, are recounted in his book, "Flags of Our Fathers," written with Ron Powers and published this month by Bantam.

"I think Kim Jong Il is involved too deeply now to pull back," said Mr. Park, noting, as other Korean-Americans did, that there had been very secretive past diplomatic attempts at easing tensions between the two countries that came to nothing.

J.M. Hoffman authored two non-fiction books and contributed to over a dozen others before writing The Warwick Files, a short-story series featuring a police chief with a secretive past who lives in a quiet New York City suburb where, according to the official count, there are no spies.

That would be Sean, of course, his performance riffing on JD Salinger, the great absent presence of the American teenage novel, and other secretive scribes past and present.

Last month, Mr. ElBaradei, the chief nuclear inspector for the United Nations, cut his own deal with Iran's government, intended to answer questions about its secretive nuclear past.

He was never secretive about his past problems.

"If they've been secretive in the past, they'll be secretive as president," Mr. Obama told voters in Mason City.

Blair, who set up a commercial consultancy firm, Tony Blair Associates, following the Korea and Kuwait deals, has been secretive in the past about his money-making schemes.

In "The Missing," for example, we learn that Dora, who survived Auschwitz and has been secretive about her past, once told her daughter, Mariana, that she'd had numbers tattooed on her arm in order to cheat on a math test.

Ezra's been so secretive about his past, about who his family is.