Like I say, one has an inclination towards caginess in our line of work.

Or maybe the caginess was just a typical bureaucratic reflex.

There was a certain charisma about him and a certain caginess, too.

Why, he wondered in ponderous caginess, would his guests care about such a detail?

It was Dory's caginess that had caused the law to desist.

Then she added, seemingly having forgotten her own caginess on the issue: "It's reality.

The detective smiled at the caginess of Blefken's action.

His richly aphoristic character was a man whose amiability masked a basic caginess.

The caginess of the performers, and the personality added by the evocative cinematography, both go a long way in adding weight to "Distant."

Troubled by the caginess of their adversary, Worf glowered until his eyes hurt.

About an hour in, the lawyer starts showing the witness documents, and there is a sudden downshift in the direction of caginess.

Blyth learned all this from, of course, Herman, who enjoyed summoning the captain back to the day room to boast about his caginess.

This reaction, an amalgam of caginess and insecurity, is a clue to Ms. Keaton's gift as a screen comedian.

There's a caginess to her that belies her delicate appearance on the ice, a mixture that judges rarely see.

In spite of Dunbarth's professional caginess, Sithas liked the old dwarf.

Mr. Dafoe shows a subtle caginess, and Earl grins at the unlikeliest of times.

Mr. Caine's preening caginess as a gangster in the first film made the outbreaks of violence all the more stunning.

He developed a certain movement and caginess from one of the greatest bare-knuckle fighters, Jem Mace.

Eventually, all this caginess will evaporate, as soon as the industry settles on a standard for two-way CableCards.

He sees the aloofness beneath the crowd-pleasing charm, the caginess behind the exaggerated sang-froid and the selfishness behind the self-promotion.

And she could understand his shrewd caginess, so like her own, his obstinate pride that kept him from admitting his love for fear of a rebuff.

Exhibiting the caginess Martina Hingis once used to befuddle her powerful opponents, Henin was dictating the points.

As he speaks about finding money, donor by donor, project by project, he describes a Sisyphean chore, to which he brings a certain caginess.

But that and a caginess about her age (61, she said, though her alma mater puts it at 73) are her only traits that could be called old-fashioned.

The President, played by Donald Moffat with a Reaganesque mixture of caginess and imperfect hearing, tacitly authorizes a bit of payback.

"I am happy if the peace will be settled," he said, showing the cageyness of an Iraqi who has survived decades of authoritarian rule.

"I am happy if the peace will be settled," he said, showing the cageyness of an Iraqi who has survived decades of authoritarian rule.