lack of reserve

Example Sentences

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Their metal frame and heavy chassis and transmission combined with the lack of reserve buoyancy mean they sink quickly.

From Washington Times • May 5, 2020

While the rest of us waver and debate and hesitate, these guys pour everything into their instruments with no reservations — a lack of reserve that I needed to learn.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2012

"Four hundred and eighteen dollars," replied the old man, with a lack of reserve that testified to his confidence in these unknown but respectful and sympathetic high school boys.

From The High School Boys' Training Hike by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

The fault of the Tuscans is, perhaps, a carelessness of opinion, and an ignorance of it, and, springing from that, a lack of reserve which occasionally approaches the shocking.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

I perceived that this was to him the most important matter—his wife's lack of reserve!

From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton