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adjective
Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
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Restricting her palette to reticent blacks, whites and grays, she conveys the spirit, changes and constancies of a pure, unsullied wilderness.
Its beachside berth in Halifax Harbour seems peaceful enough, and Patrice shows me and three other clients where to snorkel on the reefs that were once a bit fuller of life, but still are home to reticent lobsters and various fish species that, taken together, look like a kindergarten paint set, including one spindly guy who wiggled like a rubbery paint brush.
Applause gave way to reticent laughter as she explained how she had planned a set about bees flying alongside her car on the 405, but that she couldn't possibly do her "silly jokes" when all this was going on.
The administration said the tragic events surrounding MH17 should serve as a "wake-up call" to reticent EU countries that something had to be done to curb the actions of Russian-controlled separatists.
Several feminist scholars, most especially Ruth Hubbard (1990), have clearly pointed out the close parallels of Darwin's account of eager males competing with one another for access to reticent and choosy females with Victorian gender values (see also, Fausto-Sterling 1985/1992).
Earlier in the day, the foreigner spent five and half hours teaching policy debate to reticent German college students at the Mediadesign Hochschule in quickly-gentrifying Kreuzberg.
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Lastly, since the vast majority of respondents were Dutch, we have to be reticent to extrapolate these findings to Europe as a whole.
Companies tend to be reticent to compare their medicine to a competitor, and when they do they are frequently accused of stacking the deck.
It commanded its followers to be reticent — to never degrade intimate emotions by parading them in public.
Most companies, even those doing well, tend to be reticent to discuss any damn thing, let alone their cash flow.
Or are you reticent to celebrate just yet?
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