He spoke with a guardedness that comes from knowing he is operating in a delicate and evolving situation that is under intense scrutiny from many deeply invested observers, including former company members and the many Cunningham devotees.
He speaks softly, with a polite guardedness, fixing you very earnestly with his gaze.
Mr. Sanada is expert at alternating Seibei's acute awareness of his surroundings with a bland guardedness.
Zuckerberg, as we learn in the book, has long believed that online sharing is wave of the future, with old-fashioned guardedness yielding to a new era of "greater transparency".
Woven from deft, nimble sentences, her stories convey with beauty and searing honesty the juxtapositions of adolescence -- that self-conscious guardedness combined with lovely and sometimes tragic naivety.
And it's consistent in tone, with an atmosphere of tension, verging on discomfort though interlaced with humor, and a guardedness that never relaxes.
And it seems an element of that has stayed with him, despite the guardedness he is now careful to assume in public.
But there's something also there of smoothed veneer, of guardedness … but I'm still left with this feeling of … a bit of a wall — the veil.
Perhaps he was right: at any rate, the stigma gave him a good excuse for imposing a regime of strict secrecy on his household, thickening its already humid conservatoire atmosphere with toxic vapours of repression and duplicity, and instilling early habits of guardedness in his only child.
But he also came cloaked in guardedness.
Their expression is intelligent and measuring to the point of guardedness.
