But Mr Harper is a cautious man, with a fine ear for Canadian tolerances.

ECONOMIST: Canada��s opposition

Mr Blair, a cautious man, is unlikely to take a decision before he needs to.

ECONOMIST: Labour in London

Worn down by the difficulties of office, the great reformer has become a cautious man, surrounded by an insular group of advisers.

ECONOMIST: President Obama

He was a cautious man, methodically feeling his way, but I think he sensed an evident opportunity and acknowledged a dynastic responsibility.

CNN: Brought up to be a good man

These two moves gave Romney a good start toward losing the election, but he is a cautious man, and he sensibly wanted insurance.

FORBES: Mitt Romney's Brilliant Strategy For Losing The Election

But these are not the actions of a cautious man.

ECONOMIST: The state-of-the-union address

His father, a cautious man, will certainly block radical reforms.

ECONOMIST: Syria

In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

He was at his core a fearful, law-abiding, overly cautious man, yet he let her walk past him into his apartment without a word.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

"Bennett's play feels less like a class comedy than an old man's rage against the sterility of today's cautious, over-organised society, where all boxes must be computer-ticked, and all human spirit and oddity processed away, " said Ismene Brown in her review for The Arts Desk.

BBC: Entertainment & Arts