| 1 | Diplomats have always said rude things about each other in private, and everyone has always known that. | |
| 2 | Instead we should privately praise the Chinese leadership for its efforts on this front and then turn to the real issues at hand... | |
| 3 | She could be cruel to "the little people" too, in private, because, I think, she despised them; she was smelted with class prejudice. | |
| 4 | She is funnier, livelier and more interesting in private than in public; one reason, perhaps, why she frustrates many who observe her from a distance. | |
| 5 | That would encourage the many Kashmiris who have taken part in Indian-run elections and who often accept in private that co-operation with India' s authorities would bring gains. |