Word: circumspectness
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...mood at the Sahara was more circumspect than celebratory, the rhetoric directed at the American audience more measured. One delegate, a former army officer who asked to be referred to as "Abu Ali", even admitted that he had a sister in Florida, and said he would come to the U.S. himself if he could. "America doesn't leave a country by force," said Samarai. "Bush has been in a hole, digging deeper. So every year, it has become more difficult for America to leave Iraq. But what the muqawimma [resistance] movement has done is more than America can bear...
...Scholars have differing opinions as to whether educational benefits arise from racial balancing," Thomas wrote. "Some have concluded that black students receive genuine educational benefits. Others have been more circumspect. And some have concluded that there are no demonstrable educational benefits...
...program after Justice Department lawyers had concluded that it was illegal. Comey, who during Ashcroft's stay in the hospital was acting Attorney General, has told Congressional investigators that when he arrived at the room and began explaining to Ashcroft why he was there, he was intentionally "very circumspect" so as not to disclose classified information in an unsecure setting and in front of Ashcroft's wife, Janet, who was at his bedside and was apparently not authorized to know about the program...
...true of Sunday's massive popular demonstration in Istanbul, which took aim not only at the AKP and fears of creeping Islamicization but also, notably, at the military and its undemocratic intervention of a few nights before. "Neither Shari'a nor a coup," chanted demonstrators. That decidedly rational, circumspect attitude toward the ideologues and opportunists now wreaking havoc offers some glimmer of hope at a time when good sense is in short supply...
Knowles, in characteristically circumspect fashion, referred to Skocpol’s leadership style in his letter on Tuesday as “gently unambiguous...