Despite a certain wariness in her gaze and upper body, her stance is excellent — her weight mostly over the slightly flexed back leg, her front foot stepping boldly forward in preparation for the swing, which will initially take the bat up and back, then swiftly down into the reversing pivot and full-body turn that precede and accompany her Speaker-esque, closed-stance cut at the ball.
She seems relaxed in her body, yet there is a wariness about her too.
She then tackled her own critics in a meeting of Labour MPs, acknowledging wariness of her status as an upstart rookie but rebutting it with an account of her years of campaigning commitment to the party and its leader.
Many of her answers are delivered with a penetrating stare, a wariness in her voice.
This accounts for the wariness in her work, the dissatisfaction expressed in the irritable way she rakes her hair to one side in midsentence.
But this wariness reflects her bent toward precision, and a scientific sensibility that was ingrained from childhood: Atwood wants the terms defined before she will state her position.
The tableau of the women's faces, frozen between sisterly concern and feral wariness, holds her back but exposes everything about the tribal rules.
That could help Ms. Merkel avoid having to make repeated explanations to Parliament in Germany amid growing wariness in her country about a ballooning bill for assisting far weaker parts of the euro bloc.
That could help Ms. Merkel avoid having to make repeated explanations to the German Parliament amid growing wariness in her country about a ballooning bill for assisting far weaker parts of the euro bloc.
Without ignoring the terrible restrictions on intimacy faced by her students in their daily lives — in a country where, she notes, homosexuality and adultery are punishable by death — Ms. Steil manages to form a series of touching, often hilarious friendships with young men and women who do not let their wariness of her thwart their curiosity.
