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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

I do not pretend to correctness, To one yard or even a dozen; No need for extreme circumspectness, The margin's too ample to cozen.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

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

It must be granted, poor George Wilhelm's case demanded circumspectness.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Carlyle, Thomas