uncommunicativeness

Example Sentences

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With continued uncommunicativeness, except as to the factual results, the Republican National Committee's subcommittee to cooperate with the Candidates was taken into conference, Hooverized, given some luncheon, dismissed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since, he has cultivated a habit of almost total uncommunicativeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The results of his observation were usually shrouded in the densest veils of uncommunicativeness: I sometimes wonder if I have ever met a more silent man.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen

Alan's uncommunicativeness extended below the level of speech, and his mother, reduced to the helplessness of dead-reckoning, had not even the solace of adapting her sympathy to his needs.

From The Descent of Man and Other Stories by Wharton, Edith

And I really think my visitor was more pained by my uncommunicativeness than she was by my betrayal of her.

From Sylvia's Marriage by Sinclair, Upton