Their secretiveness is the result of the fear that if they give, it may chance that they may want. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume I] Reference
Until now you've had a reputation for secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [‘Mercenary Is a Slanderous Term’] Reference
This secretiveness had its bearing upon the image of. From Wordnik.com. [MACHIAVELLISM] Reference
Up until now, you've had a reputation for secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [‘ “Mercenary” Is a Slanderous Term’] Reference
The vice president's office is known for its secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Secrets And Leaks] Reference
Vola, and he was a character for fidelity and secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
Natural secretiveness and craft make each alertly suspicious. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
"Such secretiveness serves us poorly," Ahlenius wrote to Ban. From Wordnik.com. [Inga-Britt Ahlenius Confidential Memo Portrays UN Chief As Secrecy Obsessed, Against Accountability] Reference
Brotherhood's secretiveness, but Cortin took him anyway; these. From Wordnik.com. [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference
What I wonder at is, rather your secretiveness than your courage. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
For there is no streak of mean secretiveness in Green Valley folks. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Why isn't the press holding Hillary accountable for her secretiveness?. From Wordnik.com. [Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary Among Dems, But Trails McCain For The General] Reference
Such is the depth and secretiveness of children, whom we call transparent. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Repressive regimes make no secret of their secretiveness and their repression. From Wordnik.com. [Erik Ringmar: Guerrilla Bloggers and the Old Elite] Reference
That probably accounts for the lingering secretiveness of many of the children. From Wordnik.com. [An Emotional Moonscape] Reference
They plant distrust and secretiveness, and they produce in us after their kind. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Now wouldn ` t that suggest to you a certain secretiveness, knowledge of guilt?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2006] Reference
His secretiveness, he thinks, gives him the freedom to change direction quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Dress-Down Dole] Reference
But, more than political discretion, what we saw today is pure State secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: 'I Owe You No Explanations, No Promises, No Results'] Reference
And then I made this second point about the actual secretiveness enabled by Holt's bill. From Wordnik.com. [MoveOn and HR811 (the Holt Bill)] Reference
Reticence and secretiveness are excellent things in their way; but this too may be overdone. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Gone were the harshness and secretiveness with which she had met his earlier questioning. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Tiddy Doll nodded and the light played on his black glasses, emphasising their secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
Her dislike of talk Jury '' id not put down at all to secretiveness: he put it down to despair. From Wordnik.com. [the deer leap]
And to certain temperaments a little of this diplomacy, or secretiveness, is often very important. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Possibly Posh exaggerated the importance of secretiveness, and FitzGerald the security of privacy. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
If only he'd been frank with her … but he'd learned the habit of secretiveness in a hard school. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
At a congressional hearing Defense Department officials say that because of China's secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2007] Reference
She has a campaign that doesn't leak much, so it sort of went to the -- went to sort of secretiveness of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2007] Reference
Given the secretiveness of Kim's government, it's clear that what we don't know is probably a lot more than what we do. From Wordnik.com. [A Prayer for the Hermit King] Reference
There was a subdued excitement about Lady Linden during the Thursday and the Friday, and an irritating air of secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
A train of mice, in the strictest incognito, could not have performed these operations with a greater amount of secretiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
One of the officials said the administration's secretiveness had, in this case, created problems for antiterrorism efforts. —. From Wordnik.com. [An 'Intel Gap': What We're Missing] Reference
"If there's one thing I can't abide, it is secretiveness," said Mrs. Bonner, as she watched him up the road towards the village. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Marriage] Reference
If we turn our attention to iron-clad ships, we shall see best displayed the sagacity, energy, and secretiveness of Louis Napoleon. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference
When the thought is turned to an endeavor to secure a dollar that is not earned, there is secretiveness of purpose and inward guile. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
As Janet offered this conscientious information, Steve Brown looked in vain for any allusion to her secretiveness of the night before. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
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