It was okay for boxers of 50 years ago to be taciturn, but today the champion is expected to be an entertainer. |
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As harrowing as these scenes may be, they fail to excite the same level of discomfort as the taciturn Brady who glares blankly into the audience. |
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Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes. |
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A taciturn man, Olivier still grieves for his son, who was murdered during an attempted car robbery some years before. |
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This taciturn guy, played by Gerard Butler, melts in the boy's artless presence and starts falling for his mum. |
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He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial. |
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We see his taciturn, vocational commitment to the basic rules of storytelling craft. |
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The taciturn Scot who was known for his pauciloquent manner, was appointed physician-in-chief. |
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He was a rather taciturn individual who discouraged chatter in the theatre. |
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This quiet and taciturn man has been as responsible as any individual for the rise in England's fortunes. |
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He was also taciturn, but enumerated that he wanted a relationship with me. |
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Our group was a taciturn group of actors from theater, TV, and film, and we didn't even really meet beforehand. |
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He was conscious of it, but he was a taciturn man and just then he had nothing to say. |
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That taciturn man with the eyes of a kind wizard has brought about a veritable revolution in gymnastics. |
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The taciturn landlord, never quite friendly, usually acceptably civil and occasionally helpful, must be a type specially bred to run such places. |
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He is even more taciturn when he drives, often appearing oblivious to any other presence. |
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A smart yet taciturn girl, she never complained and she always followed her instructions to the letter. |
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Indeed, he has the brusque, taciturn manner of a true Montana native, although he was born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay Area. |
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Anybody who knows him will find more than a grain of truth in the story, for he is one of the most taciturn men in football. |
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Of their surviving sons, Tilden is a taciturn headcase while Bradley is a sadistic brute who chopped off one of his legs with a chainsaw. |
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Drunken games of darts in the local were watched by taciturn natives seething with resentment about property prices. |
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So, joining him in the suite are his taciturn driver and a talkative tailor named George. |
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But in her usual taciturn manner, the president kept silent, leaving it to her ministers to justify the hikes to the public. |
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And she also tends to be rather taciturn, so many people who have access to her wonder what she's really thinking. |
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I get to play this sort of cold-blooded, taciturn killer who always refers to himself in the third person. |
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Its title is the nickname of a tough, taciturn, adventuresome sparkplug of a boy from a farming village on the northern coast of France. |
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He's just another taciturn tough with an inexpressive scowl, although he's rather convincing shinning up buildings like Peter Parker. |
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The exuberant, indefatigable Democrat from Oregon and the dour, taciturn Republican from New Hampshire made an odd couple. |
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No one would confuse him the taciturn, forgetful and vengeful Senate Majority Leader. |
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Delta is the story of the return of a taciturn young man to the countrified delta region which is his family's home. |
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According to people who have known him in Africa, he was a taciturn, withdrawn, unsociable man with a dry sense of humour. |
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A cheerfully taciturn man with a penchant for basset hounds, Oshii doesn't like to talk about the Matrix and any similarities to his film. |
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This taciturn, almost lonely chronicler of despair, whose work GEO has been publishing for years. |
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The letters have been published amid growing signs that Charles is planning to rule in a far more outspoken way than the taciturn Queen. |
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Jones is due to take Arthur Lowe's role as the pompous and diminutive Captain Mainwaring, with Nighy as the dry and taciturn Sergeant Wilson. |
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Transparency did at least take a small step forwards at Wells Fargo, America's fourth-biggest bank by assets and its most taciturn. |
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Carmen is happy. She is in love with Carlos, a young man filled with optimism, the exact opposite of his taciturn and tormented friend Leon. |
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Perrin the clown disappears and it is the precious friend, taciturn confidant and child in a man's body who speaks to us. |
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But he was also taciturn, rarely betraying his inner thoughts, his friends have said. |
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I became irrational and flunked the tough-guy test, the show-me-the-evidence test, the taciturn Gary Cooper test. |
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Tall and taciturn, he exuded the easy authority of a young man used to money and the deference that came with it. |
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He intends to go into management when he retires as a player, and already betrays some of the characteristics of his taciturn international mentor. |
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He was an extremely taciturn man, so it would have been totally out of character for him to have consciously chosen to make up that sort of thing. |
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Never the most outgoing of men, he remains as taciturn as ever. |
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I trained myself so well I now have to be careful not to be taciturn. |
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Those who worked with the taciturn Field Marshall revered him. |
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These were a taciturn lot, slow-thinking, cautious and secretive. |
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He was attractive, in a sinister yet compelling way, but taciturn to the point of monosyllabicity. |
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The personality thus produced is highly introverted, taciturn and apparently docile, but masks a resentment that may suddenly manifest itself through acts of violence. |
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It was a rare setback in all-dominant spell enjoyed by the taciturn Portuguese, whose gruff exterior belies a heart of gold, and who has won for himself almost pharaohic status in the Egyptian capital. |
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The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm. |
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Harold Pinter earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious, enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding. |
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They have a severe, taciturn expression, even somber. |
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Slim and taciturn, a sly upward turn to his lips, a farseeing look, Jean Gabin Fanovona gives off a feeling of secrecy and one suspects that the race of musician to which he belongs is similar to that of magicians. |
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Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire. |
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A taciturn yet merciful mechanic repairs them with a tube of epoxy glue. |
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Tall, lean and taciturn, Carla has successfully shielded herself from meaningful human contact after an abusive upbringing and a divorce. |
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Dom poncet was in all likelihood a vigorous, rather taciturn man who was not content with a life of prayer and fasting within the monastic community. |
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The title of Bruno Dumont's new film — first shown as a three-hour-plus television miniseries — is the nickname of a taciturn fireplug of a boy in a farm village on the northern coast of France. |
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A taciturn and surly person who doesn't speak more than two words to me. |
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Even the typically taciturn Bayern coach Louis van Gaal has singled out his compatriot for praise, acknowledging Robben's huge impact on his team's style. |
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The Secretary of Defense was a taciturn man, given to telegramlike statements. |
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This remedy type often displays a sad and taciturn nature with hyperacidity, dryness of mucus membranes, a sour body odour and a craving for meat. |
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Cavendish was taciturn and solitary and regarded by many as eccentric. |
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Dirac was known among his colleagues for his precise and taciturn nature. |
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