Sentences with phrase «as taciturn»

As a taciturn Russian immigrant, Dimitri fills the role of cranky foreign judge on the show.

Shot in the deserts of Arizona and Southern California, prolific actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut follows Lucky (Stanton) as the taciturn brooder shuffles around a nowhere town, sipping coffee at a diner, buying milk at a mini-mart, and nursing a drink at a bar where the gray - haired regulars lecture one another about what life ’s

Drive (Sony), the sleek pulp crime cool - meets - art - house style thriller starring Ryan Gosling as a taciturn getaway driver, was an Oscar favorite when it debuted in the fall.

This is Gosling as taciturn protagonist taken to its extreme far beyond intelligent bounds, as he spends most of his screen time standing in door frames bathed in red light.

It's compelling, and Schoenaerts is a treat as this taciturn knot of angst and muscle tone, but Michaël R Roskam's film is short on humanity and dash.

Though once a light, blandly handsome lead in musicals and romantic comedies, Payne remade himself as a taciturn post-war tough guy and used his broad - shouldered physique and the strength of his physicality to make himself a formidable action hero.

Jack is an intellectual dreamer, not as taciturn as his father, whose behavior and dialog bely a suicidal streak.

The actor known for eccentric flourishes landed the role of a lifetime as a taciturn senior convinced he's won a big sweepstakes prize

Smiley is not the kind of character we usually affiliate with Oldman — who made his name on such larger - than - life characters as Sid Vicious, Beethoven and Sirius Black — but he gives a career - defining performance as the taciturn gentleman - spy.

Ledger was astonishing as the taciturn cowboy who is more surprised than anybody when his soulmate turns out to be another cowboy, portrayed superbly by Jake Gyllenhall.

Jan - Michael Vincent enjoyed a successful run as taciturn maverick pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the TV series Airwolf (1984 - 86) before becoming a fixture in such direct - to - video yarns like Hidden Obsession and Indecent Behavior (both 1993).

Not exact matches

I'll find myself sitting cross-legged next to a taciturn Swedish engineer, a heavily tattooed biker, or another migrant - there's a computer programmer from Chennai - as our children play with the wooden blocks, rattles and drums.»

Love the lovely boomerang, mahogany curved bands in unrequited air hang mobile» then as if in reprimand the striped wood taciturn, turns and turns» to the willing hand returns.

A New England farmer, as everyone knows, should be a taciturn, flinty character who makes a bare living scratching out rocks to build into fences to keep out his neighbors.

Others that spoke about the President are Governors of Kaduna, Nasir El - Rufai, Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and some of his (Buhari's) Special Assistants as they offer rare insights into the perceived taciturn Nigerian leader.

Dean is Dean Skelos, a silver - haired, taciturn Long Island senator and leader of the Republicans, who lured Espada into this alliance and now is watching, befuddled, as his new best friend hijacks the show.

One denizen eking his way along is Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a taciturn, serious fellow who works as a «looper,» meaning he whacks people the mob sends back from the future.

Rickman, naturally, gives as good as he gets, but his best is reserved for his brief, taciturn exchanges with Umbridge.

Here he paints an idyllic Italian countryside as lyrical as his dialogue is taciturn.

Galafianakis» stage persona, a taciturn hermit, makes a clean transition to the big screen with a magnetically weird presence that's occasionally as dumbfounding for his companions as their predicament.

So basically, it's business as usual: a devious old bureaucrat out to punch Bourne's clock, the taciturn Euro - assassin (Vincent Cassel, wasted) hired to do it and an icy female agent enticed by Jason's masculine allure.

With Le cercle rouge, his diamond - hard penultimate film, Melville mounted one of his most masterful entries in the crime - thriller genre, an elegantly stylized heist film in which a taciturn trio of thieves (Alain Delon, Yves Montand, and Gian Maria Volonté) orchestrate an intricate jewelry - store robbery, their fates hanging in the balance as a dogged police inspector (André Bourvil) closes in.

Robert Carradine, Mark Hamill, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward play the «four horsemen,» as their tough, taciturn Sergeant (Lee Marvin) names them, the eternal figures in a rifle squad filled out by a couple of hundred replacements whose names they finally give up trying to learn over the four years of combat.

A taciturn Westerner, he internalizes his problems, especially as this deals with male pride and an understandable fear of what the future may hold.

The Driver, though taciturn, becomes the antihero of the piece, as the one with the moral code that says that it's one thing for him to engage in a life of crime in order to make a living, but it's not in his code of ethics for it to spill over and effect the lives of those who never chose such a life.

Mark Lewis Jones gets its sparse measure as Stanley, a taciturn local who takes in a couple (Annes Elwy, Dyfan Dwyfor) when their car crashes near his house.

He played yin to Steve Carrell's yang in Crazy, Stupid, Love., a man whose quiet confidence fills any room he enters, and followed it with an even more taciturn performance as a 21st - century Steve McQueen in Drive.

An unassuming, taciturn young man, Baby (Ansel Elgort) moonlights as a getaway driver for a gang led by Doc (Kevin Spacey).

The relentlessly suspenseful and subversively witty vengeance opus follows Dwight (Macon Blair, Saulnier's muse and best friend), a taciturn tramp, as he travels back to his childhood home where one brutal decision after another spins an ever - growing web of bloody consequences.

More taciturn, tragic and terrifying than the original, it discusses how evil feeds upon innocence as desolately as «No Country For Old Men.»

Tracy Letts, who adapted his Pulitzer Prize — winning play for the screen, never got Tolstoy's memo about how «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,» and as a result we're treated to a veritable banquet of American - theater tropes sensationalizing intergenerational dysfunction: banshee - like women and taciturn men in the autumn of their years, and progeny who either suffer for their familial devotion or lose their souls to escape the nuthouse.

Based on mysteries by Craig Johnson, this modern western stars Robert Taylor as Walt Longmire, a taciturn, recently widowed sheriff policing a county in Wyoming that borders a Native American reservation; Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) as his Philly - raised deputy, Vic Moretti; Lou Diamond Phillips as Walt's best friend, Henry Standing Bear; and A Martinez as Jacob Nighthorse, the casino owner whose relationship with Walt underlies much of the show's conflict.

Shea Wigham steals scenes as Shannon's co-worker; familiar - face character actor Ray McKinnon has one impressive scene as Curtis's concerned - yet - taciturn older brother; Kathy Baker, as Curtis's mother, briefly demonstrates the stakes on the table for Curtis as he tries to figure out if his visions are mere madness.

Casey Affleck gives a quietly powerhouse performance as Lee Chandler, a taciturn handyman who is summoned back to his hometown when his beloved but hard - headed brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) dies.

In many other young actors» hands, the role of Charley could easily have been played as a cold and taciturn teenager, but Plummer instead manages to «lean» into the restless and soulful qualities of Charley, his initial wide - eyed wonder at Pete and the other racehorses helping to demarcate the embarkation of his journey in search of security and normality.

But the taciturn Texan is remembered best as the founder of Chaparral Cars.

That car was designed with input from Caroll Shelby, the taciturn Texan who has had an off - and - on - again relationship with Ford that is on again, as Shelby is adding his name to a performance version of the Ford Expedition SUV that will go on sale through selected dealers next year.

Our first introduction to him, through Mrs. Ali's description, was not very favorable and, when he made his first appearance, he was described as a «frowning face» and quite taciturn.

From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life to understand - and maybe even explain - his behavior: the painful separation from his mother in childhood; a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father; a romance that withered under a shadow of lies; and his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father.

They are as different as chalk and cheese, but a master storyteller of Rankin's caliber can draw in his audience, making them sympathize (and identify) in equal parts with the hard - charging Rebus and the taciturn Fox, all the while not missing a beat in the plotting, the setting, the characters and the ever - present battle between good and evil.

However, if I were to choose a frog to substitute, I would go with either the taciturn, adorable and somewhat handleable White's tree frog, an Australian and Indonesian species that is now commonly available as a captive - bred pet.

Coupled with its taciturn personality (any more docile and it would be classified as «vegetable»), it is my favorite of the giant pets.

With motivation stemming from retribution just as much as environmental concern, Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife was at the forefront of this shift, while VIII's stubbornly stoic Squall Leonhart later set a new watermark for taciturn personalities.

The ICA's queer agenda (if you want to go so far) began quietly enough in 2010 with the restrained, even taciturn Roni Horn, who I deeply admire for the sophistication of her aesthetic vocabulary as well as her ability to maintain integrity across media.

Always taciturn on the nature of his art, Alexander Calder once quipped, «That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.»

I watched Leslie's 1964 repetitious experimental short, «The Last Clean Shirt», shot from the rear of a convertible as the car turns around New York City, a taciturn black man driving, while a white woman at his side chirps Finnish Franglais gibberish that had been subtitled by the poet Frank O'Hara.

Graphic forms arranged in bold color, sometimes alongside text, announce some cryptic order, such as the face of a creature with a taciturn smile and pinwheel eyes; the aggregate effect of which is greater than merely the compilation of individual forms.

And a Pride and Prejudice mash - up by «William Codpiece Thwackery» called «50 Shades of Mr Darcy» which includes lines such as ««Mr Bennet sat taciturn, staring at his magazine and waiting for the invention of television» and «It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good riding crop must be in want of a pair of bare buttocks to trash.»