Sentence examples for were quite reserved from inspiring English sources

Socially, Catherine and Robert were quite reserved.

As with the Nouveau Roman, Sartre and de Beauvoir were quite reserved towards the Nouvelle Vague, the new French cinema of the 1960s (ibid).. Rather than Sartre, it is Merleau-Ponty who gave the most lucid exposition of the evident link between cinema and existentialist philosophy in a conference at the National School of Cinema in Paris (1947b).

People are quite reserved.

Over the years he was tremendously generous to me, but he was quite reserved.

At first, I thought she was quite reserved, but that changed when she started to sing.

I know her media persona is quite reserved, but she's got quite a quiet wit about her.

Her Italian family, Calvi says, "are all very dramatic and slightly hysterical" while the English half is "quite reserved".

"My parents are quite reserved in English but funny and boisterous in their mother tongues," she says.

More so as an athlete because not many people know her as a person, because she is quite reserved.

At first, he was quite reserved and not very forthcoming, but when my dad asked if Caroline and Jackie could be involved in the photo shoot, he became more at ease, providing a more intimate shot.

"I do like the idea of women not showing too much," she says, "of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered," and she might just as easily be talking about herself as a person as her designs for Celine.