He is taciturn, steadfast and diligent and methodical.
The King chafed bitterly over the stupendous indignity thus put upon his royalty, but Hendon was moody and taciturn.
These two personalities are totally opposite. One is eloquent and skillful in words, the other is taciturn, and the golden mouth is hard to open.
Yet this book is more than an adventure story: it is also a moving detective story about finding the locals who had helped and a poignant memoir of a taciturn war-hero father.
Mr Fogg was as calm and taciturn as ever.
Tatyana was taciturn and aloof. He had no intention of taking part in the social life in the countryside.
Kafka, a world-class literary master and the founder of modernist literature, grew up with a lonely character, taciturn, cowardly, sentimental, and always liked to hide in a corner.
A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables.
He made no mention of revising the deficit data, which made investors more worried than the taciturn reform.
" They made wide detours so as not to pass her they saw her or her taciturn husband, no matter how far away, they made haste to go in the opposite direction.
But these men were a taciturn lot, picking their words carefully.
She took them to visit her taciturn cousins.
Daughters of the old man of time, hypocritical days, one by one silent and taciturn wrapped in clothes, such as a lame bowler monk.
WELL before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being “enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding”.
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.
No animal is more industrious than an ant, but it is most taciturn.
"Jones, the actor, has never been more wry, sly and taciturn."
