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  • n  the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary

  • What's central is running the government machinery well, which to the Lifer mind is essentially a nonideological job requiring toughness and taciturnity.
  • The players are uniformly good, but a special word must be said for Fiennes, whose portrayal of physical awkwardness and painful taciturnity never begs either for laughs or for .
  • Characteristics: Modesty, taciturnity, diffidence (women make him blush), singleness of purpose, courage, occasional curtness, phlegm.

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