Sentences with phrase «most taciturn»

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.

Sen. Tony Avella was the most taciturn member of his house, saying 275 words.

Calvin Coolidge, perhaps our most taciturn President, returned from church on a Sunday morning.

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Those comments raised eyebrows among some in Trump's inner circle, who noted that one of the president's most ferocious attack dogs seemed unusually taciturn.

He's a «guy's guy» with his competitive nature, his drive to succeed, and his taciturn introversion — and yet he is the most tender - hearted and gentle of souls, the one who can make me laugh, the one who tells me to speak up.

There have been 13 Olympics since, and each has left a legacy of unforgotten moments and splendid heroes: Dorando Pietri staggering to a disqualification in 1908; Aileen Riggin, at 12, winning the dive in Antwerp; Jim Thorpe, who astonished the Swedes with his athletic feats by day and his revelry by night; the taciturn little Finn, Paavo Nurmi, who won seven long - distance championships; Jesse Owens, whose four gold medals in Berlin brought a scowl to the face of Adolf Hitler; and Emil Zatopek who, lacking natural speed, became by will the most marvelous of modern long - distance runners.

Would that Philip could have one swift encounter with the taciturn, blood - hungry protagonist of Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Studiocanal, 18), the most inventive, unsettling and oddly affecting film to emerge from the recent surge of interest in vampire lore.

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.

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.

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.

Nintendo has continued its taciturn pattern on most things recently, including the company's puzzling decision to skip Gamescom 2012 in lieu of its own tour of sampling events throughout Germany.

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.»