Sentences with word «laconic»

Steve Toltz the man is as laconic as his character Martin Dean is loquacious.

A long or a little below the knee dress, black with laconic cut, is a clothing item suitable for any season.

In typically laconic style, Randy remarked that «they finally decide they don't want so many notes and they get my * & % $ ing cousin to do it?»

Oscar winner Sean Penn voices the grunts made by laconic bird Terence, who looks like a cross between a cardinal and a sumo wrestler.

Jack, in his own laconic manner said; «It was more a case of he flew into our fire rather than us hitting him!»

Another figure to wonder about is Mary Heilmann, the great California painter — a phenomenal colorist, whose laconic work fizzes with ideas.

The intersection of Strange's sardonic attitude against that of more laconic people around him, including Chiwetel Ejiofor's stalwart Mordo, and Benedict Wong's mountainous and deadpan Librarian Wong, is an ongoing piquant delight.

Accepting the trophy in typically laconic style, he cheerfully recognised his entire career has largely been a been based upon the one - hit wonder Crocodile Dundee and its sequels, but as he pointed out to the roar of the audience, «It was a mighty hit.»

I am constantly stunned by Matisse's laconic way of representing light through color.

Not as insightful as «Topsy - Turvy» or «Vanya on 42nd Street» about the process of putting on a show, it's nonetheless a fascinating meeting of the minds — between iconic New York indie filmmaker Michael Almereyda and laconic American cowboy and dramatist Shepard.

His fiercely laconic work destroyed the boundaries between furniture and sculpture, between private delectation and public use and radically altered the way we see many 20th - century masters, including Gerrit Rietveld and Brâncuși.

But now, Alexa may be getting a bit more laconic, and a bit less disruptive to your life.

«For someone who had worked so hard for so long to achieve his breakthrough as an artist, Roy Lichtenstein, even late in life, always remained laconic about the way his famous comic book images actually started.

Lucky's desert shack, style of dress and laconic affect all scream «cowboy,» and he is indeed a rugged individualist, albeit one whom advanced age has reduced to a fairly simple circuit of activities.

But the story is really about Tommy Lee Jones» laconic Sheriff Bell, a dedicated lawman following the trail of the corpses left in Chigurh's wake and becoming more disillusioned with the world with every death he's unable to prevent.

In his perfect reproduction of a scene from Geppetto's workshop, Colen has added his own laconic twist, manipulating the curling wisps of smoke from the extinguished candle to form the barely - visible words of his provocative title.

This year was marked by the usually laconic Charlie Munger, known for his typical -LSB-...]

By coincidence another great, if laconic film is on view near the New Museum: Michael Landy's «Breaking News — New York» at the Sperone Westwater gallery.

It's a gift that he has passed on to his more soft - spoken son, who both fits the handsome, laconic cowboy mold and breaks triumphantly free of it.

Jean's laconic if purposeful manner as Julian makes him a charismatic oasis of cool in a world which is basically violent, frenzied, shouty and sweary: There's little depth of characterization, when everyone's simply seeking to gratify their urge for money, sex, drugs or or all three, as an escape from the tedium and the horror.

Does the passive, politically correct, laconic sage who speaks in the red type of The Five Gospels have the capacity to remake our imaginative world and provide a new fiction within which millions might find meaning for their lives?

If press releases have largely become baroque exercises in obscurantist prose, the text announcing Benjamin Carlson's solo show in Los Angeles was refreshingly straightforward, even laconic, in its description of «five paintings depicting still lifes in front of a window.»

Charlie Chase, Billy Bevan, Ben Turpin, Snub Pollard and the ever laconic Harry Langdon strut their stuff in this timelessly funny anthology.

Creed's numbered works all come in the form of laconic scripts, recipes for works of art that can then be created in different places and times by following his simple proposals.

«The Laughing Policeman» is an awfully good police movie: taut, off - key, filled with laconic performances.

Russell plays the role as a cross between Wayne and the Harrison Ford of the Indiana Jones movies, swinging between laconic understatement and macho displays of self - confidence.

Dean is defined by the same laconic charm that Martin has perfected across years of television shows and standup comedy specials, and the ease at which the actor steps into his role only further cements the impression that he's essentially playing himself.

We even get a mysterious, laconic protagonist who conveniently needs the whole situation exposited to him for our benefit.

Spitznagel is blond and from the Midwest and does yoga: in contrast to Taleb, he exudes a certain laconic levelheadedness.

This year was marked by the usually laconic Charlie Munger, known for his typical «I have nothing to add» answer, answering many questions in depth.

Creases and reflections partly obscure the women of these spreads; their half - parted lips, half - lidded eyes, and laconic poses all markedly and excessively similar.

This potential ecological message — ahead of its time — is given support by Rauschenberg's laconic comment on his use of stuffed animals: «Too bad they are dead.

Reeves, sotto - voice and laconic throughout does his most daring feat of derring - do by maintaining the lightest of ironies in his performance, and not being afraid to give in to sentiment when appropriate.

Kilmer's laconic take on the TB - ridden Holliday turned the non sequitur «I'm your huckleberry» into a strangely enduring catch phrase for the genre.

I've grown to love how laconic Destiny appears in comparison, and I like its necessity for strategy.

Prince's signature laconic writing style is represented by autobiography, fiction, observations and confessions.

Ginger is one of the easiest and laconic checkers in use both as a computer program and as a Google and Microsoft Word extension.

A measured, laconic career diplomat with an air of hardened patience, DeLaurentis had taken over as the chargé d'affaires in the summer of 2014, bringing more Cuban experience than perhaps any other senior official in the US government.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

In Luke's wonderfully laconic, almost humorous verdict, «And great fear came upon the whole church.»

«We're all wicked here,» as one of my white prisoners remarked with laconic realism, and no one troubled to correct him.

«Sin,» he replied, in his typical laconic manner.

Now I picture all of these memories with a single laconic voice, the cadence letting you know what was happening just as effectively as the actual words.

Laconic Mauno Nissinen of the University of Washington left them speechless when he won the All - Around title in the NCAA championships

Her delivery is somewhat laconic, almost dry.

The look can be complemented with a pair of laconic footwear such as leather stilettos or gladiator sandals.