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Instead of the irony of a '60s Warhol or Lichtenstein, one is treated to an unremitting earnestness, a moral concern with the voids between people and the circumspectness of their gestures.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had always considered Mrs. Field a woman of the same rigid circumspectness of attitude, and when she found Jennie calling there she was outwardly calm but inwardly irritated.

From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore

Walk he ever so proudly, carry himself with what circumspectness he may, at the first breath of suspicion all are off—friends, relations, business acquaintances, the whole social fabric in toto.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore

I charge you straitly to do with circumspectness, consideration, and caution what I expect from so gallant a soldier.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

"But if to the audacity of the design there be brought a commensurate circumspectness of execution, how then?"

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman