“that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with a real answer” (Page 18, Big Book)
What’s true usually need not be said.
Deportment does most of the saying that’s necessary.
What’s said has an angle.
I’m skeptical of angles.
I’m skeptical of sayings.
Justifications, explanations, defences, expressions of past and future intentions, expressions of disappointment, disgust, and love: all have the capability of being ‘angular’. What needn’t be said is being said for a reason, and the reason is usually control.