Sentences with phrase «for taciturn»

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.

They travel to Wales to find the strikers are far more open - minded and worldly than they get credit for - wonderful contributions from Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy, who uses his gift for taciturn shyness to glorious effect.

It is, however, perhaps what a synthesis of documentarian Marsh's naturalistic impulses and Addica's manifest love for the taciturn cinema of the early -»70s was destined to yield.

For a man whose job title implies loquaciousness, the Bronx legislator — now in his seventh term in the capital — is known for his taciturn style.

Not exact matches

For starters the starter's booth at the Old Course is a boxy wooden shack, directly on the sprawling, closely mowed 1st tee, and it is typically manned by a taciturn, cap - wearing Scotsman who reminds you to take neither mulligans nor practice swings.

This brief background is imperative, for the triad of Obasanjo, Babangida and Danjuma are involved in some media grandstanding of late, with the usually taciturn Danjuma's the latest rally.

Mr. de Blasio, the Democratic mayor, has repeatedly relied on the taciturn Assembly speaker to battle for his priorities in the state legislature, where New York City ambitions often crumble in a Republican - controlled Senate.

The taciturn Democrat, an accountant by trade, will be charged with uniting the diverse and unwieldy 150 - member body in the wake of Mr. Silver's resignation, a daunting task for any legislator.

Mr. Heastie, a typically taciturn man who declined to comment for this story, first tangled with Ms. Mark - Viverito a year ago during the City Council's redistricting process, when Ms. Mark - Viverito's East Harlem - based district was redrawn to include a large swath of the south Bronx.

A new survey from dating site https://www.elitesingles.co.nz/ has revealed some unexpected news for those who still believe in the taciturn Kiwi bloke stereotype: not only are Kiwi men happy to celebrate Valentine's Day, they are surprisingly quick off the mark to say «I love you.»

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

Hoping to help her fiancée George get ahead in business, Dulcie invites taciturn executive Forbes for a dinner party.

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.

Meanwhile, an endless train of Syrian refugees bound for Europe silently traipses through the rural terrain, visible through the binoculars of one gentle and taciturn candidate, the postman.

A smash hit on the drive - in circuit, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was a key film in the post-Easy Rider road movie genre, for although it retained the explosive fatalism of the others within the movement, it did away with their taciturn, enigmatic protagonists.

He falls in with Michael Fassbender's taciturn former bounty hunter character and pays Selleck to guide him in his search for Rose.

Unlike their more recent roles, in which she played a delightful weirdo and he played a taciturn weirdo who also was capable of murdering you, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves will have to stretch their dramatic chops a bit for their next acting gigs, venturing into territory less in line with their actual personas.

When Gina (Michelle Williams) and her husband, Ryan (James Le Gros), sit down with a taciturn neighbor, Albert (Rene Auberjonois), in order to strike a deal with him for a pile of unused sandstone, Gina's silently exasperated struggle not to be made to feel small in polite, sitting - room conversation seems like nothing less than a reasonable update to the horrors borne by the wives and daughters who blazed the westward trail.

In the DVD commentary track for The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton makes the brilliant observation that the logical casting for the dapper, taciturn barber would be Clooney while he, himself, would have been the obvious choice for Clooney's character in O Brother, Where Art Thou; that the brothers have «corrected» themselves for this picture goes a long way towards explaining both the pleasures to be gained from Clooney's deft comic timing (and a courtroom scene that is at once a throwback and a revelation), and the problems with a film that in apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguished.

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

For production duties — and obligatory romantic subplot — the movie looks to a lanky, taciturn loner (Mamoudou Athie) who performs spastic «political» noise - rap tantrums under the moniker Basterd The Antichrist.

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.

No, they haven't come for his cat this time, but the taciturn ex-assassin is still prone to murderous rages.

Beverly's estate - agent husband Laurence (Andy Nyman) is on hand — if he can stop working for a second — to hand round the drinks and snacks and she's also invited new neighbours Angela (Natalie Casey) and her taciturn, ex-footballer husband Tony (Absolom).

Likewise, Brian and Tracy rarely interact like people who haven't seen each other for 13 years; she's especially quick to overshare about her marriage to Woody (John Krasinski), a taciturn military man whose failure to communicate is played for both drama and cornball comedy.

Above all else he is required to be taciturn, and were it not for his great talent there is no way his character could be so successfully conveyed.

On HBO's version, the Oscar - winning Hopkins will play Dr. Robert Ford, the brilliant, taciturn and complicated creative director and chief programmer of Westworld, who has an uncompromising creative vision for the park — and unorthodox methods of achieving it.

Andrew and Kurt discuss the specifics of the new Rowthree design before getting into the 1984 project with taciturn Chuck Norris and side boob, but slapped in between Gamble joins in for a lighter - on - the - spoilers discussion of the Tom Cruise movie, so we can Live.

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

Three other men are already seeking shelter inside: Gen. Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), a Confederate veteran renowned for his cruelty to freed slaves; Oswaldo Mobrey (Tim Roth), an offputting British hangman proud of his dispassion in his job; and Joe Cage (Michael Madsen), a taciturn cattle driver whose very countenance is suspicious.

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

Sontag's words came to mind when watching Pinto's repeated shots of mollusks, bugs, and wasps; of the beloved dogs that he and his taciturn partner, Nino, care for; and of the forest fires that threaten the plot of land that the pair spend time replanting with trees.

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.

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.

For Elmore Leonard, changing a taciturn character's name could make him into a chatterbox.

Maybe it's because looking back on one's life is a luxury that her hard - working, taciturn characters would either not have time for, or sneer at.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

For me, it is the consummate rugged outdoorsman: leathery skin, taciturn demeanor, the signature cowboy hat, and of course, the pervasive manliness.

For my first book I had one somewhat taciturn beta reader and a proofreader.

After the taciturn reception for Dragon Age 2, the developer had to figure out where to take their «other» RPG franchise next.

This pictorial tension isn't unrelated to Hans Hofmann's push - and - pull, although Rothko's work is too taciturn for such a punchy conceit.

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.

Sitting down in a darkened space for a brief look at Kentridge's 15 - minute video projection, the taciturn Donald Fisher confided something one would never expect to hear: «This is probably the piece I admire most in the whole collection.»

The resolution of opposites in both his art and his criticism was for some of a piece with Stephen's deportment, in which a seemingly somber and taciturn manner actually proved a foil for a lust for life and an unfailing generosity of spirit.

In a speech to Wall Street analysts this morning, the Nuclear Energy Institute's president, Maria Korsnick, warned against «a myopic focus on short - term prices «and criticized efforts «that advance renewables while closing nuclear plants» — strong language for an industry that is frequently taciturn to a fault.

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.»