Sentences with phrase «taciturn ways»

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

Not exact matches

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.

One denizen eking his way along is Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), a taciturn, serious fellow who works as a «looper,» meaning he whacks people the mob sends back from the future.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.