As above: personal, guardedly hopeful and suddenly beautiful, and a little bit downbeat.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 16, 2016)
If his paper was guardedly optimistic, his postelection verdict was not.
New York Times(Nov 13, 2016)
He guardedly tells a foreign reporter that he is “not free these days and can’t speak on the phone”.
Economist(Nov 10, 2016)