How To Use Taciturnity In A Sentence
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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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I avoided his stares and finished the meal in silence, surprising Gretchen with my unaccustomed taciturnity.
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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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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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After all those years of taciturnity in male cinema, the floodgates opened and we were deluged by talk.
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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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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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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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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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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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I avoided his stares and finished the meal in silence, surprising Gretchen with my unaccustomed taciturnity.
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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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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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He was true to his heritage in valuing hard work, frugality, practicality, and taciturnity.
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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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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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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