How To Use Taciturn In A Sentence
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They said that as their longer "taciturnity" might cause the ruin of his Majesty's affairs, they were at last compelled to break silence.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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Lawson's ‘The Teams’ is still one of my favourite poems - partly because I know how accurate was Lawson's description of the taciturn, hard-working teamsters.
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Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In the West, his reserve with men had been labelled taciturnity or swollen-headeduess, which did not fit the case at all; whilst, in spite of his perfect manner towards them, his indifference to woman _en masse_ or in the individual was supreme and sincere.
The Hawk of Egypt
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She had become tense and taciturn, particularly with me, and for no reason that she would vouchsafe.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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My father is an ex-serviceman. As he is introspective and taciturn, I seldom hear the word "love" in his speech even once. According to mother's evaluation, he is a thin-skinned man.
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This man, taciturn, clearminded, laborious, inoffensive, zealous for no government and useful to every government, had gradually become an almost indispensable part of the machinery of the state.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
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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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He was his usual taciturn self at the postgame press conference.
Globe and Mail
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He is famously taciturn in interviews, and not big on stage patter either, preferring to flick through his back catalogue with the minimum of fuss.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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He was seen as an effective leader, despite being taciturn and uncongenial.
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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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A smart yet taciturn girl, she never complained and she always followed her instructions to the letter.
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A muscular, taciturn man with callused hands and a sunburned face, Hart normally pounds rock for oil or water.
Jeff Hart, Chile Mine Driller From Denver, Becomes Rescue Hero
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Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big - chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity.
Chapter 4
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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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Never the most outgoing of men, he remains as taciturn as ever.
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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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The threat of which arrives in the person of Zhang (Sun Honglei), a taciturn detective hired by Wang to kill the adulterous couple.
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Bersonin, who despite his taciturnity was a patient teacher, instructed me in Danish, but possibly because he himself only spoke it at second hand, I didn't take to it easily.
Royal Flash
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So, joining him in the suite are his taciturn driver and a talkative tailor named George.
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My father was a very stern and taciturn man and my relationship with him wasn't good.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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I trained myself so well I now have to be careful not to be taciturn.
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Even the somewhat taciturn, closemouthed Ravi thought that last part was pretty nifty.
BARRACUDA 945
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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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At such times he was remarkably taciturn, and would sit in brooding silence or go almost immediately to bed.
CHAPTER XI
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The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
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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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There they were associated with the look and dress of a torrero, and our coachman, though an old Castilian of the austerest and most taciturn pattern, may have been in his gay youth an Andalusian bull-fighter.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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He is famously taciturn in interviews, and not big on stage patter either, preferring to flick through his back catalogue with the minimum of fuss.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was true to his heritage in valuing hard work, frugality, practicality, and taciturnity.
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The other, lantern-jawed and taciturn, replied: ‘mongoose’.
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Whenever our asthmatical abbé would lead the conversation towards subjects relating to chemistry or alchemy, Boiviel would either avoid a direct reply or else fall into a state of profound taciturnity: and yet all his debts had been paid, including the various outstanding accounts due to his numerous landlords, and his dinners at the Croix de
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
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I did my best to draw my fair companions into a little chat, but found my _vis-à-vis_ -- the daughter of my successor outside -- most impracticable; a monosyllable was the extent of her exertion: whilst her companion, who was a lively, intelligent-looking girl, and very pretty withal, was necessarily chilled by the taciturnity of her senior.
Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.
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Even the somewhat taciturn, closemouthed Ravi thought that last part was pretty nifty.
BARRACUDA 945
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These were a taciturn lot, slow-thinking, cautious and secretive.
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I avoided his stares and finished the meal in silence, surprising Gretchen with my unaccustomed taciturnity.
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In a granite lobby a taciturn man in a tight suit shows me to the lift.
A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
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He was also taciturn, but enumerated that he wanted a relationship with me.
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Normally shy and taciturn, Daoud was quite a conversationalist when he was with us.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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He was a rather taciturn individual who discouraged chatter in the theatre.
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Those who worked with the taciturn Field Marshall revered him.
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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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They're famously taciturn, and make no allowance for outsiders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes.
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His father is a faceless figure: a retired brigadier, reserved and taciturn.
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Prince was taciturn, unusual for him, but we still had a hug.
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We took a floatplane to the trail head. Our taciturn guide pointed out that it was this robust aircraft that had helped to open up the wilderness in the Fifties.
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Secretive and taciturn, he did not like to talk about himself and was loath to reveal too much about his thinking.…
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At Senator Hanway's dictation, the taciturn one who had been so forethoughtful as to bring with him envelopes and blanks, wrote messages to each of the hysterical eighteen, about twenty to a man, signing them with the names of those influential constituents.
The President A novel
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He was like so many taciturn Spaniards, not inconversable, and we had a pleasure in his unobtrusive intelligence which I should be sorry to exaggerate.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Having finished the satisfying of his own inward man; and commenced the indulgence of adding his contribution to the general nicotian pregnated atmosphere, while proceeding about his vocation, he replied to William's various questions with a wonderful alacrity and volubility, strangely contrasting with the taciturn moroseness which had appeared to be his usual manner.
Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
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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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He was conscious of it, but he was a taciturn man and just then he had nothing to say.
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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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One is more taciturn, accepting what goes on with a shrug.
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The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
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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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The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
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The cartwright was a taciturn individual, although not sullen; he seemed simply to be unwilling to part with too many words.
The Robin And The Kestrel
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Taciturnly distasteful hyalospongiae to washington combustion, and the dandruffs get scarce off to matriarchic evidence.
Rational Review
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While they were grappling with these issues the matter was settled for them by the surprising arrival of a counterorder from the Bents, delivered by the taciturn old hunter Lonesome Dick, who seemed put out that he had had to ride so hard on their behalf.
The Berrybender Narratives
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I think you are somewhat reserved, but my daughter does not seem to mind your taciturnity, so I suppose I have no occasion to complain.
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We are quietly confident," the always taciturn Westwood said after the pairings for tomorrow morning's series of fourball matches were announced.
Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie uses dark arts to steel European team
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Mr. Brown, who had always met my advances with a grim taciturnity that made conversation exceedingly difficult, proceeded to dissertate upon one or two of the vexed questions of the day.
An Amiable Charlatan
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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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He was frequently abrupt, taciturn, uneager to please.
Times, Sunday Times
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The talk centered on the taciturn, ungregarious, menacing man from Cleveland.
The Prize
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The peace and quiet of small town America seems to suit the taciturn Finn, but Joe, the loudmouth coffee wagon operator who parks outside Finn's depot, challenges Finn's insular existence.
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Alan Hansen would recall that, despite having won the European Cup, the taciturn Paisley still admonished his men ‘it's winning the league that's important’.
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The packer was a taciturn inhabitant of the wilds who seldom indulged in an unnecessary remark.
The Long Portage
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He is even more taciturn when he drives, often appearing oblivious to any other presence.
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But I think, too, of hours spent alone with him as an interviewer, seeking to overcome his calculated taciturnity in an exercise I likened to mining gold with a plastic teaspoon.
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The taciturn rifleman gestured over the dunes and started walking in that direction.
DESTROY THE KENTUCKY
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Although other kids were quicker with the software, Simon enjoyed these studies because he loved learning new words, like caterwaul, which meant “to shriek or yowl,” and taciturn, which described someone who was quiet… like him.
Watercolored Different
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His personality is more surprising: the gruff, taciturn public image back home turns out to be a myth.
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At about the time the lads reached puberty, Ephraim announced that the gift had deserted the boys and retired from his circuit – marrying a rich woman and, when he eventually died, leaving a fortune to taciturn Gabriel, and nothing to the family of the handsome, free-spirited Johannes.
The Preacher by Camilla Lackberg, translated by Steven T. Murray
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They're famously taciturn, and make no allowance for outsiders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sensible of his father's humble, but yet respectable position, he neither attempted to swagger himself into importance by an affectation of superior breeding or contempt for his parent, nor did he manifest any of that sullen taciturnity which is frequently preserved, as a proof of superiority, or a mask for conscious ignorance and bad breeding; the fact being generally forgotten that it is an exponent of both.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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He was a rather taciturn individual who discouraged chatter in the theatre.
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My father was a very stern and taciturn man and my relationship with him wasn't good.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a period when middle-class fathers often withdrew behind taciturnity and rituals of manliness, when mothers stifled their finer feelings and aspirations behind domestic routines.
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After all those years of taciturnity in male cinema, the floodgates opened and we were deluged by talk.
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Hintock "a solid-going fellow;" he maintained his abeyant mood, not from want of reciprocity, but from a taciturn hesitancy, taught by life as he knew it.
The Woodlanders
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Normally shy and taciturn, Daoud was quite a conversationalist when he was with us.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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His host didn't help either; he was distrait and taciturn, as if he had a premonition of what was to come.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
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At first both were silent, for Lord Ulswater used the ordinary privilege of a lover and was absent and absorbed, and his companion was never the first to break a taciturnity natural to his habits.
The Disowned — Volume 08
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We see his taciturn, vocational commitment to the basic rules of storytelling craft.
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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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Then How-ha's eyes went blear as she traversed the simple windings of her own brain, inspecting the bare shelves taciturnly stored with the impressions of a meagre life.
CHAPTER 19
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But the conscious taciturnity of Edgar recalled her exertions; struck and afflicted by the truth she had pronounced, he could not controvert it; he was mute; but his look spoke keen disturbance and bitter regret.
Camilla
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Friends described him as reserved, almost taciturn, but insatiably curious about science and technical processes.
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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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Fantastically, the palms las vegas of the vinyl lets him taciturnly, nigerian to levantine healthily to his chlorophyllous liverleaf.
Rational Review
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In a granite lobby a taciturn man in a tight suit shows me to the lift.
A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
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She had become tense and taciturn, particularly with me, and for no reason that she would vouchsafe.
THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
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Rodgers, hailed none the less as a hero in papers across the country, was renowned for being taciturn.
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I avoided his stares and finished the meal in silence, surprising Gretchen with my unaccustomed taciturnity.