But the point of this wariness is to discern real continuity and real change, not to avert the idea of continuity itself. From Wordnik.com. [Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)] Reference
Not quite fear, but a kind of wariness, watchfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Step into Chaos]
In a statement, the Board said a mood of "wariness" was emerging in the industry following the massacre in Boipatong in the Vaal. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But it was not hostility, exactly; merely a kind of wariness, a momentary stiffening, as at the passing of some unfamiliar animal. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Now that wariness is giving way to open criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Diplomacy: Has the Dealmaker Lost His Touch?] Reference
Estate agents already report a new wariness among buyers. From Wordnik.com. [A Nut Bin Of One's Own] Reference
There's the tribalistic wariness in dealing with the press. From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Family Franchise] Reference
But, they approach the topic with a certain "Show Me" wariness. From Wordnik.com. [Elisabeth Rhyne: A New Financial Access Frontier: Persons With Disabilities] Reference
General wariness of carrot sticks aside, I'm with Glenn on this. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn Beck mocks Michelle Obama's carrot sticks] Reference
Eventually, despite a certain initial wariness, we became friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Kay We Loved] Reference
But the other still exuded a wariness, a wariness mixed with surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
This wariness and reserve does not, as a rule, amount to churlishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Recent exercises in truth telling have only added to voters 'wariness. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
Education reformers greeted her speech with relief but considerable wariness. From Wordnik.com. [Schoolyard Brawl] Reference
Then his expression changed to one of the most remarkable sagacity and wariness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
Sarkozy doesn't hide his contempt and wariness of Muslims both in France and outside. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Seoul’s Leader] Reference
Of course, the hotel is not completely isolated from the tension and wariness outside. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From Kosovo] Reference
They inherit a paradoxical mix of idealism about national leadership and wariness of it. From Wordnik.com. [The '60S Democrats] Reference
There's still wariness among locals unaccustomed to being covered so closely by bloggers. From Wordnik.com. [Peytonplace.com] Reference
The look in their eyes revealed a resigned wariness and the exhaustion profound fear brings. From Wordnik.com. [How The Flames Shaped The Shield] Reference
It is a wariness that seems his birthright as the son of the most famous woman in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Charming] Reference
VCs have plenty of reasons to mix wariness with curiosity about alternative-energy companies. From Wordnik.com. [Entrepeneurs] Reference
"They support one another and share their interests and activities, but always with wariness.". From Wordnik.com. [Mind Of A Man: Why We Strive For Status] Reference
I remember the red crab, our mutual wariness when we surprised each other in the concrete alley. From Wordnik.com. [Color Wheel] Reference
That wariness is more pronounced, he says, in the provinces than it is in the more anonymous cities. From Wordnik.com. [COMING OUT OF THE COLD] Reference
Ordinary as the sparrow is in almost every respect, we cannot but admire its courage and its wariness. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
There was approval in their eyes, but there was something else there, too -- a wariness, a concealed fear. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
Kelleher himself has regularly professed wariness of the Big Apple's three C's -- cold, cost and congestion. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart Of The Sky] Reference
Bank funding costs have climbed, a sign of wariness among banks and investors about the sector's conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Banks Rattling Nerves Again] Reference
David Lida first approached Mexico City, the subject of his new book, with a wariness verging on trepidation. From Wordnik.com. [The Model Megacity?] Reference
More broadly, the bill's demise would illustrate how our wariness of government can reach self-destructive extremes. From Wordnik.com. [Senator should release hold on blocking federal oversight of Metro system] Reference
Lord Lovat had gained nothing but wariness by the lapse of years; but the benefit to his worldly condition was considerable. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Kohl wants to be remembered for something else, too: erasing the last traces of international wariness about the new Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Last Of His Kind] Reference
Europeans (and Asians) could oppose America, but their views were balanced by wariness of the Soviet threat and communist behavior. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrogant Empire] Reference
This I take to be a confession of faith in the existence of large trout, and at the same time a delicate compliment to their wariness. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
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