The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary.
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Examples for "reserve"
Examples for "reserve"
1
Therefore private reserve owners often need to breed game for this purpose.
2
He said the reserve held a record 707 million barrels of oil.
3
There was, however, growing interest among reserve managers in non-traditional reserve currencies.
4
In reserve, in case we need it for something in the future.
5
If needed, the reserve day will be used later in the week.
1
The loquacity of the Netherlanders was a continual reproach upon his taciturnity.
2
DuQuesne studied the metal, and was shaken out of his habitual taciturnity.
3
That's how Bennett succeeds in conveying the tenderness beneath his characters' taciturnity.
4
But the old man on his return maintained his taciturnity and self-composure.
5
If the priest perceived these new signs of taciturnity, he ignored them.
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Really, she had no sense of reticence when it came to injustice.
2
At this crisis she displayed a self-control and reticence which were admirable.
3
I understand your reticence, but I only have a message to deliver.
4
There is the evidence of extreme reticence and moodiness in Fuller always.
5
One would hope Gatland expresses no such reticence in the dressing room.
6
Such reticence must mean he's a bootlegger or bawdy house owner, Pemberton.
7
His imagination was struck by the quality of reticence in her beauty.
8
That reticence was part of the general constraint lying upon them all.
9
Petawanaquat listened with grave intelligence, but with the reticence of an Indian.
10
Which he never had, having learned the power of reticence from her.
11
The man of the world preferred her reticence to the wisest speech.
12
His instinctive reticence stood firm until the moment of the new birth.
13
He knew that pride and a certain reticence were her natural qualities.
14
In consequence of his reticence I was driven-ordrove myself-toblank verse.
15
Sometimes extremely upper-class people -some -have a sort of reticence.
16
Mr. Rickman had never been less inclined to reticence in his life.
