Just as often, however, her quick mind and flexible thinking helps Jackie in situations where his moderate thinking and habitual caution are a definite hindrance.

His habitual caution often made him draw back from potential reforms.

Nonetheless, the habitual caution of the elderly komees had in some measure restrained Ahndros' less calculating nature from open and violent defiance.

Traditional conservatives, shocked out of their habitual caution by 9/11, have begun to recoil from the consequences of the campaign they consented to join.

He sat down with an old man's habitual and rather pathetic caution.

In spite of the need for speed, The Shadow moved with habitual caution.

I cannot understand how Lop-Ear got over his habitual caution, but it must have been the play.

"My slow advancement in rank is a direct result of my characteristic trait of habitual caution," he stated without hesitation.

His habitual caution, however, induced him to wait until the next post from England, and the next post brought news of Booth's defeat.

Curiosity and apprehension were strangely mingled, and yet her habitual caution could not be so easily overcome.