Sentences with phrase «of taciturn»

(Laconica is so named, of course, because of the taciturn folks in that part of ancient Sparta, who, when Philip of Macedon told them, «If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta,» replied laconically, «If.»)

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.

While her new film Disorder showcases a bounty of moments and flashes that could easily be corralled into some frisky English - language B - picture, there's a uniquely European ambience to this tale of a taciturn soldier returning to France and importing the collected traumas of combat with him.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Their semisacramental physicality is set in telling contrast to the taciturn and pleasure - scorning brother of the title:

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.

On that trip Nicklas's father, Jan - Eric, also took note of his son's increasingly taciturn ways.

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.

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.

Buffalo's normally taciturn mayor is wasting no time in whipping his fellow denizen of City Hall with some of the bluntest attacks of his three terms in office.

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

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.

If you link this parody to yet another WS play, Madmen and Specialists, you might just chafe at the madness that has seized the Nigerian populace, in the rash orchestration of the «death» of a man alive but taciturn; by the voluble that claim life but, by their spiteful conduct, are dead and rotten.

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.

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.

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.

In the end, what takes shape is not just a significant unraveling of Shepard's taciturn mystique, but a potent sense of the pain and rigor of revealing oneself through art.

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.

Although initially reluctant to go «all the way», Dominika eventually immerses herself in the training and catches the attention of her uncle's boss, Director Zakharov (Ciaran Hinds), and the taciturn General Korchnoi (Jeremy Irons).

Outside the realm of baseball, he was usually cast in blunt, muscle - bound roles, notably Fredric March's taciturn male nurse «Cuddles» in A Star is Born (1937).

Brady lives at home with his father, a taciturn denizen of the bars and casino poker stools, and his 15 - year - old sister, a vibrant spirit living with Asperger's syndrome.

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.

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.

Jauja takes Alonso's contemplative portraits of men on the outskirts of civilization and adds professional actors (Viggo Mortensen in the Viggo Mortensen role, a multilingual yet taciturn historical military man), a period setting, a fully fictional story, and maybe even some magic to achieve his biggest minimalist movie yet.

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.

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.

A lot of the characters, specifially Amos, are taciturn and outwardly unemotional in a way that I, being from the South, associate with good ole» boy Southern men.

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.

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.

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

All of them parts that Stanton infused with a grizzled humanity and taciturn practicality, a solemnity that never quite obscured the kind - heart and vulnerable inner life lurking underneath.

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.

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.

That time I understood better the complex role of Alison's closeted father — taciturn one moment, outgoing the next — thanks to it being re-cast with Broadway veteran Michael Cerveris, who captured the essence of Bruce Bechdel's psyche through his brilliant interpretation of the carefully crafted songs.

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.

Moments after appearing onstage, he quipped of the famously taciturn actor, «And the quest to make Tommy Lee Jones laugh begins now.»

Fassbender plays Tom Sherbourne, a taciturn but very dignified war veteran who can't understand why he survived when so many of his colleagues died in the trenches.

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

Arguably Bill Murray's greatest starring role, his Zissou is a taciturn bastard with a heart of gold, the unswerving adoration he receives from his rag - tag crew an affirmation that, during the run time of the movie, we're seeing him at a less - than - ideal time in his life.

Cullen makes a strong impression in his few scenes, carrying the air of a man who credibly respects one son's taciturn personality while encouraging a younger son who had to grow up both mother - and brother-less.

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.

Ryan O'Neal's taciturn, ice - cold lead performance, itself an extension of Hill's subdued aesthetic, also ushered in a new era of moody male machismo.

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).

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.

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 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.

Hawking coffee and fanning up a cloud of busy, pushy and likable chatter, Joe elbows his way into the taciturn Fin's life.

They finally get to Minnie's and find no Minnie but a motley collection of suspicious characters: a Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a taciturn cowpoke (Tarantino regular Michael Madsen), an English hangman (Tim Roth — hey, welcome back!)