Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.
Before I WakeA public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black MarketHell, everybody is a masochist. Some of us are just a little more private.
The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass NiggerMoney is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial CrisesWhatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
Soldiers Threebut he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
One Hundred Years of Solitude