Sentences with phrase «taciturn characters»

Maybe it's because looking back on one's life is a luxury that her hard - working, taciturn characters would either not have time for, or sneer at.

For Elmore Leonard, changing a taciturn character's name could make him into a chatterbox.

How the new Europe Innovation Department made an interactive audio story out the classically taciturn character

Not exact matches

A New England farmer, as everyone knows, should be a taciturn, flinty character who makes a bare living scratching out rocks to build into fences to keep out his neighbors.

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.

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.

He falls in with Michael Fassbender's taciturn former bounty hunter character and pays Selleck to guide him in his search for Rose.

In the DVD commentary track for The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton makes the brilliant observation that the logical casting for the dapper, taciturn barber would be Clooney while he, himself, would have been the obvious choice for Clooney's character in O Brother, Where Art Thou; that the brothers have «corrected» themselves for this picture goes a long way towards explaining both the pleasures to be gained from Clooney's deft comic timing (and a courtroom scene that is at once a throwback and a revelation), and the problems with a film that in apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguished.

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!)

Above all else he is required to be taciturn, and were it not for his great talent there is no way his character could be so successfully conveyed.

Minnesota's quintessentially Scandinavian character doesn't exhibit overt pride, but instead a taciturn, emotionally avoidant stoicism.

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.

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.

They are as different as chalk and cheese, but a master storyteller of Rankin's caliber can draw in his audience, making them sympathize (and identify) in equal parts with the hard - charging Rebus and the taciturn Fox, all the while not missing a beat in the plotting, the setting, the characters and the ever - present battle between good and evil.