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Justin, as I would soon learn, is a large and taciturn man, but he was eager to talk, and urged me to come to New Mexico to learn more about what Kooper and his friends had been through.
THE LOST YEAR: WHAT THE PANDEMIC COST TEENAGERSBY ALEC MACGILLIS, PHOTOGRAPHY BY CELESTE SLOMANMARCH 8, 2021PROPUBLICAHer father, a lumber company owner, was taciturn and remote, she recalled in her self-titled memoir.
CLORIS LEACHMAN, OSCAR-WINNING ACTRESS WHO PLAYED FRAU BLÜCHER (NEIGHHH!) IN ‘YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN,’ DIES AT 94ADAM BERNSTEINJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTWhile the latter was remarkably eloquent, the former was taciturn to the last degree.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYShe spoke no word of English and seemed rather taciturn; the only anxiety she manifested was as to the amount of her remuneration.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSPale, lean, taciturn and somewhat deaf, he bore much resemblance to the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEJosephine appeared as usual at breakfast: talkative to her father, and taciturn to her female companion.
ALONEMARION HARLANDThey were silent and taciturn, and acted as though a short conversation indicated a "financial touch."
WAYS OF WAR AND PEACEDELIA AUSTRIANMrs. Errington, on the other hand, was not at all taciturn, but she desired to have the talk chiefly to herself.
A CHARMING FELLOW, VOLUME II (OF 3)FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPEI was taciturn, he lively as one of the crickets that used to chirp behind his little Queen Anne teapot of a fireplace.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSMolire was naturally of a reserved and taciturn temper; insomuch that his friend Boileau used to call him the Contemplateur.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, NO. 358VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO TACITURN
- apathetic
- callous
- cold
- cold-blooded
- collected
- composed
- dispassionate
- dry
- emotionless
- hardened
- heartless
- imperturbable
- indifferent
- indurated
- inexcitable
- inexpressive
- inscrutable
- insensible
- insusceptible
- matter-of-fact
- nonchalant
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- placid
- poker-faced
- reserved
- reticent
- sedate
- self-contained
- serene
- spiritless
- stoic
- stoical
- stolid
- taciturn
- unconcerned
- unemotional
- unexcitable
- unfeeling
- unflappable
- unimpressible
- unmoved
- unruffled
- wooden
- buttoned-up
- clammed up
- close
- close-mouthed
- could hear a pin drop
- dumb
- hushed
- hushful
- inaudible
- low
- low-pitched
- muffled
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- not saying boo
- peaceful
- quiescent
- quieted
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- secretive
- silent
- soft
- soundless
- speechless
- still
- stilled
- subdued
- taciturn
- tasteful
- tight-lipped
- uncommunicative
- unexpressed
- unobtrusive
- unspeaking
- unuttered
- whist
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
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