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

And if I talk with a lack of reserve unbecoming in a diplomatist, the fault is yours, mademoiselle.

From The Ball at Sceaux by Balzac, Honoré de

And so she answered him with a lack of reserve at which her London friends would have marvelled.

From The Swindler and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

The coachman," said Willy, whose lack of reserve and extreme indiscretion his friends accepted good-naturedly, "is a ruined officer of the Austrian army.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold