Plagiaristic

Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

[…] the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.