Sentences with word «taciturn»

Jack is an intellectual dreamer, not as taciturn as his father, whose behavior and dialog bely a suicidal streak.

Dolly Parton plays a country - music star (imaginative casting, this) who finds herself stranded in the Tennessee backwoods with taciturn mountaineer Lee Majors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After years of portraying noble, taciturn characters with names like Running Deer, Yellow Feather, Long Arrow, Little Horse and Black Eagle, Chief Yowlachie let his hair down in the role of «Chief Hi - Octane» in the Bowery Boys» Bowery Buckaroos (1948).

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.

Taciturn Texan Jim Hall, a racer and car builder whose Chaparral cars revolutionized motor racing in the 1960s, brought five.

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.

Even taciturn church veterans can be induced to jump into a conversation about Christ.

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

According to his former campaigns manager, the usually taciturn Lisa Tremble; «David's rediscovered his excitement in politics.

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

The same can be said of the heavy - lidded Peter Stomare, who's built a career playing taciturn, expressionless oddballs, and Lauren Bacall, who huffs and sneers as the typically dour family matriarch.

Already taciturn by nature, Brett discreetly doesn't tell the kids his background at first.

In Fayemi, it was a distant, elitist persona that, though taciturn, hardly suffered fools gladly.

This is a movie in conversation with its predecessor, with the normally taciturn Ford called upon to do some of the most dramatically demanding work of his career.

So rather than Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, and Otis Young from Ashby's film, we have: Bryan Cranston as Sal Nealon, a hard - charging veteran who now runs a dive bar; Steve Carell is Doc Shepherd, a far more taciturn member of his Vietnam unit; and Laurence Fishburne as Richard Mueller, a former wild man who is now a repentant, happily married reverend.

Whatever his inner motivations, Wick isn't one to clearly articulate them, which makes the character a natural fit with Reeves» typically taciturn demeanor.

Once there, the charmless, taciturn hitman makes guns, shares some wine with a local padre and visits a brothel, «befriending» Clara (Violante Placido), a preposterously beautiful prostitute and the only likeable character in the whole film.

I am a slow - paced taciturn scientist from the Midwest.

Trump — who did not wear a costume — told the crowd that when the famously taciturn Robert Mercer urged him to hire Bannon and Conway last August, he knew he should listen because Mercer so rarely speaks, according to people in attendance.

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.

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

Our first introduction to him, through Mrs. Ali's description, was not very favorable and, when he made his first appearance, he was described as a «frowning face» and quite taciturn.

Speaking to Kotaku Japan, they released this short and taciturn statement: «The article quoted Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's comment accurately.»

But it was Ms Emin's more taciturn contemporary Steve McQueen who, apparently sober and with a minimum of fuss, walked away with the Pounds20, 000 prize.

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

In Drive, shorn of his charismatic delivery, Gosling created an intriguingly taciturn creature, a gentleman with far from gentle capabilities.

In Nicolas Winding Refn's follow up to Drive, his stylisation has become so heightened and his «hero» so taciturn that there is nothing real to grab on to; we're given ninety minutes of iconography devoid of meaning and are told to bring our own.

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.

Love the lovely boomerang, mahogany curved bands in unrequited air hang mobile» then as if in reprimand the striped wood taciturn, turns and turns» to the willing hand returns.

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

One imagines an already taciturn Vijay Singh, deprived of bromides such as the one he delivered on the eve of the tournament — «There's still a lot of grass on the greens, but I don't think it's going to stay that way long» — having nothing to say at all.

But Mendoza, who's also the school guidance counselor, was his usual taciturn self and said nothing of the kind.

We've saddled ourselves with an unambitious, balance sheet oriented, taciturn businessman who has a really poor track record in every sport he's set his hand to.

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.

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.

Sen. Claghorne was the quintensessial Southern politico; and Titus Moody was the New England taciturn one; and Miss..

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.

Morbidly taciturn and pathologically reclusive, he was such a confirmed misogynist that he communicated with his female housekeeper only by written notes.

I am 18 and kinda taciturn around people; but usually if we hit it off, I'm really talkative and open:) I think having a common interest in anime or manga is really awesome.

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

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.

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).

Jan - Michael Vincent enjoyed a successful run as taciturn maverick pilot Stringfellow Hawke in the TV series Airwolf (1984 - 86) before becoming a fixture in such direct - to - video yarns like Hidden Obsession and Indecent Behavior (both 1993).