She answered the questions reticently. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
For when Eleanor, who used English so reticently, said. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
There is no clear win for the United States in Iraq, which even McCain reticently admits. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Milazzo: Lieberman and McCain's Desired Escalation Could Result in the Next World War] Reference
Governor Romney has said the right things about the war, but softly and perhaps reticently. From Wordnik.com. [The Candidates We Have] Reference
"Breboeuf will give you figures," replied he, reticently, for the struggle had proved grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
Here with him were Anselm, Cadfael, Hugh, Abbot Radulfus, and Elave and Fortunata, silent, hand in hand though they dissembled the clasp reticently between their bodies in this august company. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
This had been going on for twenty years -- this afternoon call; this slow drive afterward in the park; this return by dusk to the shining small house in the shining small street; the good-by, reticently ardent, as if it were not fully Mr. McCain's intention to return again in the evening. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
In 2004, she moved halfway around the world to become the assistant director of the Australian Museum in Sydney ("I was ready for a change," she said reticently), before crossing the planet again to start her current job ("An opportunity arose to come lead a great museum") this past September. From Wordnik.com. [The Keeper of Curiosities] Reference
Alas! poor Sir Thomas, who must needs babble the foolish hopes which wiser men reticently keep cloistered in their own bosoms! who confessed what every scribbler thinks, and so gets laughed at, -- as wantons are carried to the round-house for airing their incontinent phraseology in the street, while Blowsalinda reads romances in her chamber without blushing. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
In the emptiness there was something touching, something reticently satisfying. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
In between mouthfuls of pizza, Zeke reticently reveals more info on the band's upcoming U.S. release of. From Wordnik.com. [FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more] Reference
Naturally, the UN benefits more from a vocally supportive leader than from one who is more reticently so. From Wordnik.com. [UN Dispatch] Reference
I have never walked in a garden which seemed to keep itself so reticently within its own severe and gracious limits. From Wordnik.com. [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference
The final scene, the death of the trapper in the arms of his young friends, is very touching and fine, yet reticently handled. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2. James Fenimore Cooper] Reference
It becomes us to speak very reverently and reticently about the matter, but I can conceive it possible that the one manifestation of. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Kafka presents his symbols as if they were objects, confidently and reticently, where Rosenfeld had all too deliberately turned his objects into symbols. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Yes, Adoniou satisfies with a major duet, with the woman (Marina Fukushima) undressing before our eyes and the man (Daniel Howerton) reticently disrobing in silhouette. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Tall, reticently good-looking and well, if inconspicuously, clothed and groomed, he by no means seemed the typical detective that the editor had spoken of so scornfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Bat] Reference
It is to be employed as apparatus for the formation of judgments rather than the embellishment of them, though, of course, it may be used reticently by way of illustration, explanation and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
The message finally sent to the German Admiral is reticently described by Dewey himself, but is said to have been to the effect that, if the German admiral wanted a fight, "he could have it right now.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Sea Power] Reference
The greater portion of the "Harold" is obviously, in its coolness and neatness and lightness, the work of one who was unwilling to dishevel himself in the cause of expression, who outlined his sensations reticently rather than effusively, and stood always a little apart. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Cracking the Mr Bland carapaces of football men might vex the most hardened Mossad operative but, like all the best spies, Chiles possesses the invaluable knack of getting otherwise reticently bland pundits to step off the fence, talk openly and, sometimes, show their studs. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
After a while, we find ourselves watching just for the sake of watching, to see these actors -- Elio Germano and Riccardo Scamarcio, volatile and sensitive as Accio and Manrico; Diane Fleri reticently appealing as Francesca; Luca Zingaretti forceful as a fascist leader -- and to respond to Luchetti's vitality. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
And while filmmaker Joshua Safdie manages to walk a fine line narrative tightrope between our spectator curiosity and sorely tested ambivalent understanding for this reticently sociopathic woman, the lack of any sense of personal motivation and prevailing emotional cluelessness, detracts significantly from an otherwise dramatically engaging offbeat character study. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
So very interesting things which are going on in government There is also things, constitutional issues being discussed in government and whether the federal government takes responsibility for the environment that may well be on the agenda and you know I have actually discussed that with the New South Wales government and they also acknowledge that although reticently. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"The nature of these discoveries," she says reticently, "I need here only hint at, many of them being of too marked a character to admit of their being referred to in detail in a work of this character, and in a book published in the present age. From Wordnik.com. [In The Queens' Parlour]
Carl himself did not eat reticently. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
Elinor's voice was reticently mocking. From Wordnik.com. [Young People's Pride] Reference
2006 - curiously enough, including news about Al Gore mentioning peak oil, which he also did recently - and reticently, in the view of some here - that was 1055 days ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] Reference
Nervously, reticently, she approached them. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference
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