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It became clear within moments that Shyamalan’s concept would win the day, though Sparks is reticent to say why, except that “mine was pretty dark.”

It’s not as though Anderson has been exactly reticent to live in the moment.

And I was reticent about it because I did not want to replicate what we did in the Music Dance Experience, because that’s iconic of itself.

"We've been a little reticent to be bold with in our approach to tall buildings, and arguably with architecture in Glasgow generally," he says.

It costs a few hundred dollars a day to detain an immigrant; deportation can cost thousands, and some countries are reticent to accept the return of their citizens.