Sentences with phrase «taciturn man»

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.

Tracy Letts, who adapted his Pulitzer Prize — winning play for the screen, never got Tolstoy's memo about how «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,» and as a result we're treated to a veritable banquet of American - theater tropes sensationalizing intergenerational dysfunction: banshee - like women and taciturn men in the autumn of their years, and progeny who either suffer for their familial devotion or lose their souls to escape the nuthouse.

Not exact matches

The taciturn Phipps, a stout man with a round face and a perpetual squint, turned to his kids at the finish and said, deadpan, «Well, that was all right.»

For starters the starter's booth at the Old Course is a boxy wooden shack, directly on the sprawling, closely mowed 1st tee, and it is typically manned by a taciturn, cap - wearing Scotsman who reminds you to take neither mulligans nor practice swings.

For a man whose job title implies loquaciousness, the Bronx legislator — now in his seventh term in the capital — is known for his taciturn style.

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.

A new survey from dating site https://www.elitesingles.co.nz/ has revealed some unexpected news for those who still believe in the taciturn Kiwi bloke stereotype: not only are Kiwi men happy to celebrate Valentine's Day, they are surprisingly quick off the mark to say «I love you.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

Likewise, Brian and Tracy rarely interact like people who haven't seen each other for 13 years; she's especially quick to overshare about her marriage to Woody (John Krasinski), a taciturn military man whose failure to communicate is played for both drama and cornball comedy.

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.

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

Three other men are already seeking shelter inside: Gen. Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), a Confederate veteran renowned for his cruelty to freed slaves; Oswaldo Mobrey (Tim Roth), an offputting British hangman proud of his dispassion in his job; and Joe Cage (Michael Madsen), a taciturn cattle driver whose very countenance is suspicious.

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

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.

A taciturn, sometimes prickly man who was generous to those who knew him, Mr. Judd was an artist of extreme self - confidence who exercised his formidable intelligence on many fronts.

I watched Leslie's 1964 repetitious experimental short, «The Last Clean Shirt», shot from the rear of a convertible as the car turns around New York City, a taciturn black man driving, while a white woman at his side chirps Finnish Franglais gibberish that had been subtitled by the poet Frank O'Hara.

And a Pride and Prejudice mash - up by «William Codpiece Thwackery» called «50 Shades of Mr Darcy» which includes lines such as ««Mr Bennet sat taciturn, staring at his magazine and waiting for the invention of television» and «It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good riding crop must be in want of a pair of bare buttocks to trash.»