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taciturn

ta si turn

  • a  habitually reserved and uncommunicative

  • The bartender was proud to present a liquor that he claimed would soften the most irascible temper and loosen the most taciturn tongue.
  • The telecommunication company found out that taciturn farmers somehow become garrulous when on their mobile phones.
  • Tom has deliberately cultivated this widespread misconception of being dour and taciturn since loathes inane conversations.
News & Articles

  • Review: 'The Rambler' is a hitchhiker horror that travels a deceptive path
    The film is hallucinatory and handsome, though you may eventually tire of all the screaming. Picture Clint Eastwood blundering into a David Lynch movie and you'll have "The Rambler," Calvin Lee Reeder's hallucinatory hitchhiker horror about a taciturn ex-con (Dermot Mulroney) who keeps stumbling across strangers — and corpses — that might not actually exist. Either way, he doesn't much seem to ...
    June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
Quotes

  • Mike Rann in CNN International
    He was a quiet, taciturn, recessive hero who avoided parties and went back to his hotel room and wrote his newspaper column, every night, and a daily letter to his wife Jessie,Rann said Wednesday. "In Australian parlance he was the tall...
  • Ian Fleming in Toronto Eye Weekly
    Then he slept,Fleming wrote, "and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal and cold."

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