Finally, various herbs, of which I did not learn the names because of secretiveness on the part of the women, are put on a plate or on anything that is convenient, and burned.
The natural secretiveness of the bagáni made it difficult for me to secure much information on this point, but his power of harming at a distance and of making himself invisible are matters of general belief.
Develop secretiveness and selfishness, and they become cunning and profligacy, desperation and crime.
The crow (cut 34) has very large Secretiveness and Cautiousness in the head, as he is known to have in character.
When the head widens rapidly from the junction of the ears as you rise upward, Secretiveness is larger than Destructiveness; but when the head becomes narrower as you rise, it is smaller than Destructiveness.
There was evidently a curious strain ofsecretiveness in him.
I believe that a haunting sense of the intensifying unsoundness of his position accounts largely for his increasing irritability and his increasing secretiveness with my aunt and myself during these crowning years.
He grew more silent and morose than ever, and his secretiveness showed itself in all sorts of ingenious petty ways.
Ambition and an uncanny secretiveness made up the real man; he had set himself to winning his wife chiefly because the want of her distracted him from his work and fretted him.
The very calmness and secretiveness of his letter was an insult.
Then have you noticed in me much such 'secretiveness and reserve'?
Moreover, I feel certain that in time your secretiveness and reserve will disappear.
Not so; her very secretiveness had a sort of attraction--a puzzle always creates some interest.
He was a solitary man, of an habitual secretiveness deepened by years of living alone.
He had caught that note and it piqued his curiosity, so with mountain secretiveness he became cryptic in his response.
He had the bump of secretiveness largely developed; and it would have taken months of favorable acquaintanceship to have removed the unfavorable impression made by the first scanning of the man.
He seems, however, to have had the bumps both of cautiousness and secretiveness largely developed, and so kept himself as much as possible out of sight in the transaction in which he was no doubt, at the same time, an active participant.
With characteristic secretiveness he kept hidden, even from his sister, the drama at which he was quietly working.
The organization of the Council of Four and the mystery which enveloped its deliberations emphasized as nothing else could have done the secretiveness with which adjustments were being made and compromises were being effected.
It manifests outer form toward the upper-back part of the head, directly over Secretiveness (see group figure), and when developed is apparent by the enlargement of the comparatively large area covered by it.
Secretiveness is necessary for the confidence of friendship, it is an essential element of politeness, much of which consists in avoiding the expression of what is disagreeable.
From this time forth, in the insanity of her jealousy, and with a secretiveness only possible to the morally insane, Sybil completely concealed her suspicions and her sufferings from her husband and her guest.
It is a business that will require considerable tact and discretion; or at least, greatsecretiveness and cautiousness," added Captain Pendleton.
The Janizary's habit of caution and secretiveness evolved, as it were, this invisible, but impenetrable, visor.
Amesa, taking the seat, and adopting the low tone of the other; for these words had excited in him all his cupidity, and stirred his natural secretiveness and habit of sinister dealing.
This tells upon the progeny, which comes into the world with secretiveness excessive in volume and activity.
Here we have secretiveness roused in a people to a state of constant and exalted exercise; an over tendency of the nervous energy in that direction is the consequence, and a new organic condition is established.
He could never be square with the game he played with Eleanor; and as for his own "game," his steadily pursued secretiveness was a denial of his own standards which permanently crippled his self-respect.
Then she was stabbed again by his annoyance because she had opened the letter from Mr. Houghton; then by his secretivenessin regard to that adventure on the river with Mrs. Morton.
She learned that embarrassed reserve which tended towardsecretiveness and untruth before she was eleven.
In some the supreme necessity for self-ventilation interested her; in others, secretiveness hermetically sealed fascinated her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secretiveness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
