Sentences with phrase «reticent at»

Dynamic and brave, yet quietly luminous and reticent at the same time, the drawn marks demand recognition and then seemingly self - efface.

Jimbo is quite sweet once he gets to know you but can be a little reticent at first.

«I was a little reticent at first, but there are a lot of areas which have helped me relax and be a lot more positive in terms of football and also my everyday life.»

I am generally more reticent at doing so, but you are wearing my patience at your childish attempts to undermine me.

Not exact matches

While we keep hearing how introverts are great untapped resources at many companies, this system permits even the most reticent to participate and contribute for the greater good.

So while they've usually proven effective (at least in other nations), there's a chance doctors and patients could be reticent about turning away from established brand names like Remicade.

But the threat of a runaway PR fiasco that continues to infuriate consumers (and, in turn, may convince even reticent lawmakers to endorse more pricing regulations) is also causing major players to take their own actions — or at the very least to reconsider their thinking.

Tóibín's James is «a reticent man from a Puritan place, ready to do battle on behalf of freedom for his characters, but more skilled at allowing them to renounce what freedom came their way for the sake of other things that are harder to define.»

«If he was at all reticent, if he said it would be great if you could get me another vet to help out, we would have gone out and found a couple of other guys to take the pressure off of him.

Despite this schism in public betting, Arizona is still listed at -2.5 as oddsmakers are reticent to move to the key number of 3.

So, Micah, here's a question that presumably keeps you up at night: Why does Manchester United's manager seem so reticent to play Manchester United's best player?

Paul Scholes, famously reticent during his years of loyal service at United, has been one of the more vocal critics of LvG and his team since becoming a pundit.

Throughout their recent 2 - 0 Bundesliga defeat at Hoffenheim, they were inexpicably reticent to flood the opposition box and in the 3 - 0 home win over a ten - man Anderlecht in the Champions League were astonishingly pedestrian at times, for long periods struggling to make their numerical advantage count.

«Funny» is not the word usually used to describe the slow - talking speaker, who is more often deemed «reticent» and sometimes even «obstinate» for his close - to - the - vest, wait - you - out style that has proved equally maddening to both members of the press and his fellow leaders down at the Capitol.

MIDTOWN — The four Democrats vying to become the city's next mayor tried Wednesday to woo a reticent business community that remains deeply concerned about the future of New York without Michael Bloomberg at the helm.

As many media onlookers noted, this was reticent and fell short of saying he was «behind Andy» — a hint at things to come?

The Conservatives, meanwhile, will be reticent to impose limits on donations, given their backing by numerous private donors giving large sums individually, and arguably stand to lose most from any reforms, given that they are currently at the top of the pecking order in terms of income.

Solar storms can at times create radiation damage or introduce errors in satellite or spacecraft computer processors, causing them to function unpredictably, malfunction (sometimes permanently) or «misbehave» in other ways, Anderson says, adding that much of this activity goes unreported to the public because, particularly in commercial space - based systems, operators tend to be very reticent to admit they have had a problem that might discourage investors.

In a wide - ranging interview with Elizabeth Dzeng at King's Review, geneticist and Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner was far less reticent than we are about suggesting an ethical connection between scientific training and human bondage.

I am more reticent and quiet at first meeting, but do warm up with time.

At first, I think they were a little reticent about taking part in the film, but then they watched «Cartel Land» and called back and said, «Let's do it.»

At the same time, however, the film is reticent about following up on what Mireles and his heavily armed followers do with cartel members they've captured alive.

At Cannes, Hoffman made it clear that he was initially reticent to play an older character like Harold, but that he met with his future director a number of times to chat about «both our fathers,» eventually coming to perhaps the most essential component of the film and Harold himself: «We are our father at certain points.&raquAt Cannes, Hoffman made it clear that he was initially reticent to play an older character like Harold, but that he met with his future director a number of times to chat about «both our fathers,» eventually coming to perhaps the most essential component of the film and Harold himself: «We are our father at certain points.&raquat certain points.»

I was at first a bit reticent to fully fall for this work, as I still believe it may not be all quite there.

His reticent desperation unfurls two-fold: at work with prodding pleas to his commanding officer (Bruce Greenwood) to be return to a real fighter jet and at home where his day job (worked during the graveyard shift) of «engaging hostiles» stands in sharp contract to swilling PBR and grilling porterhouses on a Kenmore 4 top.

When first asked about the film, Black was jokingly reticent («At this point we're thinking we'll project on a screen... it'll be in colour...») but went on to explain his approach.

In the early years at St John's, he often appeared reticent and serious because of the concentration needed to listen and lip - read, and he shared very little.

Both of them prove much more reticent to change directions at speed and to rotate under braking.

Instead of buying eight - figure paintings from the 80s and 90s, these «reticent» buyers were gobbling up fresh works from two or three decades later for prices in the low seven - figures at best.

For the artists in «Drawing Time,» words and images are more reticent, to the point that they may not communicate at all.

Famously reticent about the meaning of his work, or even showing it, Conner will be having a major retrospective at MoMA in October 2016.

Selling Your Laura Owens Through the Whitney: James Tarmy takes a look at the Laura Owens market in the wake of the Whitney retrospective noting that normally reticent lenders to the show have been eager to have their names included on the wall tags.

The sensitive, at times almost reticent fields of dark, modulated colors create a spectral range of -LSB-...]

Shinique Smith scrawled all over the Studio Museum without leaving a signature, while Roni Horn at the Whitney has never been more open — or more reticent.

He was both remote and reticent and appeared stuck at times while laboring and lingering over his work in a manner so unlike his peers.

Rubinstein writes: «Among major artists, Bishop may be the most elusive: his work either unseen or, if encountered at one of his excessively rare exhibitions, as reticent as a whisper.

In the run - up to his first major solo show — which opens in March at New York's blue - chip gallery Friedman Benda — he's reticent to reveal the true inspirations behind his bizarre but dazzling works, which look like hammered chunks of molten metal sourced from an alien planet.

True, sellers remain reticent, with noticeably fewer top quality artworks at Sotheby's and Christie's, but New York auction receipts are significantly up (Sotheby's by 300 percent over 2009) and even if most lots are selling within their heavily reduced pre-sale estimates, interest is slowly beginning to build.

It's a prosaic statement that nonetheless hints at two important aspects of Mirra's reticent art, elucidating her devotion to the handmade while also suggesting her political conscience (she's not one to wield power aggressively).

«Jack Tworkov emerges from his third New York show as one of the most masterful artists of his generation now at work in America,» reports Thomas Hess, «the spontaneous calligraphy that loops over his waving textures has a sureness... that comes only from complete mastery... [expressed in] statements at once reticent and eloquent...» (Thomas B. Hess.

You can argue whether or not the State has the right to restrict people's lifestyle choices but, at least in Australia, the government is not reticent about interceding in other ways to improve public safety.

He's a somewhat reticent quantitative scientist who leveraged his undergraduate training in physics and applied math toward a Yale doctorate in geology and geophysics en route to co-directing the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State.

But listeners will be directed to a website which will be presumably much less reticent on such matters, if the Friends website at the time of the 2006 election, with its vicious attacks on Liberal environment minister Stephane Dion, is anything to go by.

Harry Vickers at Camborne Capital, a financier - turned project developer which installed the UK's first 500kWh Tesla Powerpack, now providing frequency regulation and other services, remarked that insurance companies are still reticent to back battery storage following a widely recognised incident involving a lithium - ion battery at the Kahuku wind farm in Hawaii more than five years ago.

[Remarkably, the original source was reticent to explicitly point out that climate change might reduce the net population at risk for water stress.

The resume must sell you as the potential candidate for hire, and selling yourself against your own, reticent standards is like pricing a Lamborghini at the value of a beat - up Dodge truck.

As both a career coach and resume writer, I know that some of the skills that professional resume writers use to extract information from reticent clients, is coaching at its best.