reticence

Example Sentences

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There had been evidence of reticence to hiring ahead of the U.K. government budget announcement toward the end of November.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its home country, Germany, is shedding its postwar reticence on military spending to lead the charge.

From The Wall Street Journal

This reticence kept Shepard from being a great actor instead of a trusted one.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the biographer also makes clear that Roth cultivated reticence with the same zeal with which he flaunted candor.

From The Wall Street Journal

When he returns 16 years later, Redford puts the lines on his face and his trademark reticence to good use, tapping into our collective need for heroes and a belief in second chances.

From Los Angeles Times