circumspect

The poet remains coolly detached: a circumspect observer in the face of cataclysm.

Until nearly sundown the men's canoes had led, silent, circumspect, seeking game at every bend of the river.

It appeared so extraordinary that the sailor should sit by the lady that it made Ursus circumspect.

I was careful to express just enough, and not too much, interest: one had to be circumspect with Uncle Zeke.

The most circumspect and devoted ally would have acted as he did.

Mr. Marrapit laid the slippers upon his dressing-table; that afternoon greeted Mrs. Major with a circumspect reserve.