Sentences with phrase «more taciturn»

Reminded by another Twitter user that Facebook owns Instagram, Musk was more taciturn, suggesting that while Facebook's influence on the company and app was «slowly creeping in,» it was still a «borderline» situation:

But it was Ms Emin's more taciturn contemporary Steve McQueen who, apparently sober and with a...

But it was Ms Emin's more taciturn... the third artist to have won the Turner Prize on the strength of his work in film... following Douglas Gordon (1996) and Gillian Wearing (1997).

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

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.

(Jimmy's the natural charmer; Clyde's a bit more taciturn; Mellie is the smart - ass spitfire.)

Not exact matches

In this way, Didion the taciturn Westerner has more in common with the garrulous residents of New Orleans than with the utopians and dreamers of her native state.

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.

Director Nicolas Winding Refn says that his LA heist fable Drive was inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales, but viewers unfamiliar with the perverse labyrinth of Refn's imagination are more likely to detect echoes of Bullitt, Walter Hill's The Driver and Clint Eastwood at his most taciturn.

We meet her dad (Tracy Letts), a taciturn and warm figure that contrasts with the more argumentative mother.

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.

He's taciturn in the classic action star sense, but there's a greater thoughtfulness to him, with the actor speaking in a steely - eyed matter - of - factness in moments of action and a more poetic, spiritual tone when bonding with Madeleine Stowe's Cora.

Now, it's little more than a museum piece that exists in the shadow of the more popular mega-church that owns it, and its depleted parish is presided over by the taciturn Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke).

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.

But Richard, who's taciturn to the point of being monosyllabic, isn't persuaded that more publicity is what he and his wife's already privacy - challenged marriage needs.

Most importantly I wanted to know more about the taciturn Itzhak.

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.

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

Sharply surprising is the inclusion of taciturn paintings of benumbingly ordinary suburban streets by the finest of the first - generation photo - realists, Robert Bechtle, whose style has hardly varied in more than forty years.