In fact, the deliberately withheld secrets littered throughout this book only serve to underscore the lame storytelling and its reliance on cheap tricks.
This is a book that does not depend on big, noisy plot developments, topical issues or deliberately withheld secrets to create suspense.
Of course, there are no such withheld secrets from omnipotent, all-powerful superheroes like Superman.
As a general rule we withhold secret information that would expose confidential sources to reprisals or that would reveal operational intelligence that might be useful to adversaries in war.
She did not withhold secrets from us.
The phenomenon is referred to as haunting--trans-generational haunting--and that which is being withheld, the secret, the family secret--is called the phantom.
A variety cryptic wants to withhold a secret and let its penny drop only after pinching it stubbornly for a time.
Like the most dazzling of magicians or the most artful of art forgers, by withholding the secret of how the illusion worked he retained a power uniquely his own: the spoils of his humiliation, perhaps, but a knowledge that no one was about to take away.
The last time the court directly addressed the issue, however, was in 1974, when it first formally recognized the privilege but said President Richard M. Nixon could not claim it as a way of withholding his secret tape recordings from the Watergate prosecutor.
"And then I feel like, in any relationship, one of the partners withholding a secret like that is going to cause friction and tension and drama and issues.
