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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

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

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

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

Know'st thou it then?" was uttered with a show of mystery and eager circumspectness; in the "'Tis there!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

If our suspicion be wholly unfounded, let his own questionable ways, not our necessary circumspectness bear the blame.

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas