reticences

He knew that some men, many men, went to marriage with certain reticences, meaning to wipe the slate clean and begin again.

The Breaking Point Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

We, the members of the Central Electoral Commission, Mihai Buşuleac, Vasile Gafton, Nicolae Gârbu, have signed the proceedings of the Central Electoral Commission regarding the final results of the parliamentary elections for the seventeenth legislature which took place in the Republic of Moldova on April 5 2009, considering the following reticences::

Global Voices in English » Moldova: Overview of Blog Coverage of the Protests 2009

I feel justified in reproducing so much of this painful material because it undoubtedly assists us in forming a picture of the many repressions and reticences that have allowed Naipaul to continue canalizing his experiences into works both of fiction and reportage.

Cruel and Unusual 2008

I feel justified in reproducing so much of this painful material because it undoubtedly assists us in forming a picture of the many repressions and reticences that have allowed Naipaul to continue canalizing his experiences into works both of fiction and reportage.

Cruel and Unusual 2008

I feel justified in reproducing so much of this painful material because it undoubtedly assists us in forming a picture of the many repressions and reticences that have allowed Naipaul to continue canalizing his experiences into works both of fiction and reportage.

Cruel and Unusual 2008

The poem of fifty-four lines by Debora Greger [4] is a store of felt life and afterlife, addressing the reticences, memories, and family circumstances of Mrs. Lindon.

Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009

Her exclamations, and also her reticences on the subject of her sons, were equal to the most lamenting verses in Jeremiah, and completely deceived the sisters, who supposed their sinful brothers to be doomed to perdition.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

The black Irish half of the family had the money and looked down upon the Maryland side of the family who had, and really had, that certain series of reticences and obligations that go under the poor old shattered word “breeding” modern form “inhibitions”.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

The black Irish half of the family had the money and looked down upon the Maryland side of the family who had, and really had, that certain series of reticences and obligations that go under the poor old shattered word “breeding” modern form “inhibitions”.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

And this is perhaps the moment when I may best explain to you the character of what you are to read: I conceive you as a man quite beyond and below the reticences of civility: with what measure you mete, with that shall it be measured you again; with you, at last, I rejoice to feel the button off the foil and to plunge home.

Lay Morals 2005