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Example sentences for: reticence

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6 Conspiracy Hysteria: Friday evening, it looks like it might be safe to turn on the television, since the day's news has featured, of all things, reticence.
Recently, [Dole] has given up his reticence to discuss his war wounds.
Craven does good work with the young actors in the classroom scenes, but the film has a reticence common to most biopics and a mushy, TV-movie humanism that blands out its texture.
It was Baldessare Castiglione (in The Book of the Courtier , finished 1516, published 1528) who first recommended black costume as a means of conveying personal distinction and a certain noble reticence.
But his reticence was not grounded in false modesty.