Word: taciturn
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...plays her bratty-teen role with enough passion to be believable, but with enough restraint to engage audience sympathy; Julia E. B. Morton ’07, who sold me on the inner humanity of her haughty aristocrat; and Smith A. Legba Nazaire, who plays a couple of taciturn authority figures with spontaneity and splendid physicality...
...acting too helps ground the film in a reality that somehow makes the mystic shenanigans believable. Jones, the actor, has never been more wry, sly and taciturn. He won't yield to his pain--to the memory of past mistakes, the implacable fury of the daughter he deserted--yet you feel it in his every movement. As for Blanchett, she's simply wonderful. She has played her share of queenly figures, but her acting essence is, emotionally speaking, plain-Jane. She's a straight shooter, with an uncanny ability to find a character's spine and communicate it without fuss...
...Premiership. Abramovich has inherited the crown of Russia's wealthiest man - but he seems to be making a move West. While the flamboyant Khodorkovsky was protesting the state's growing authoritarianism, high-handedness and corruption, and lavishly funding opposition parties - leading many to suspect he had presidential ambitions - the taciturn Abramovich took a quieter approach. Known as a gray eminence and "the purse" of the Yeltsin Kremlin, Abramovich threw his weight behind the new regime, buying into major businesses. More recently, Abramovich has started ditching assets. Since last spring, Abramovich has sold his stake in oil giant Sibneft to Yukos...
...owner was wealthy San Francisco car dealer Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who lost his son in an accident and his marriage in the tragedy's aftermath. His trainer was the terminally taciturn Tom Smith (Chris Cooper), who had a flinty sympathy for damaged and derided horseflesh. His principal rider was Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), too big and too angry to be a great jockey, but a man who saw something of his unpromising yet ever striving self in Seabiscuit...
...unsuccessfully, to bomb the Iraqi army into oblivion. The Kurdish authorities had closed the road to the front-line village of Khazar, ostensibly for our safety but also perhaps because they had lost the village the night before. Reinforcements swept along the dusty road: we watched as noisy peshmerga, taciturn Special Forces, a top commander, the brother of the ruler of this part of Kurdistan, moved past in a convoy of Land Cruisers, waving regally. The next day we discovered that the Kurdish commander who waved courteously to us was badly injured by a U.S. air strike further along...