taciturn
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Taciturn hardmen have a hard time getting awards since what they do is so undemonstrative, and not always visible to the naked eye.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2018
Taciturn as he may be, he still prizes company.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
Taciturn housewife Yeong-hye is “completely unremarkable in every way,” according to her husband — until, that is, she decides to trash all the meat in their freezer.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016
Taciturn and taken to pacing the comparatively expansive floors, he nonetheless finds himself paralyzed by small tasks that other perform without thinking.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2011
Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Animal Farm
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Grade 10, List 3
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