Petteri Sveins, who works at a crisis center in central Finland, sees these statistics as a reflection of the Finns'tendency toward taciturnity and discomfort with showing emotion.
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Such passages have one effect : they make the reader wish that Schickel had emulated Eastwood's own " appraising taciturnity, " his " preternatural cool ."
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That may be a function of Yankee taciturnity as well as Yankee frugality : Only 12 percent of local wireless users say they make more than 11 incoming and outgoing calls each day.
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With his weary poker face and wry taciturnity, Freeman's director embodies the gravitas that by the middle of the film should rub off on his protege but doesn't.
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For months, Clinton aides have made clear that they would welcome the chance to contrast the president's youth, verbal fluidity and campaign fire with Dole's age, taciturnity and campaign brimstone.
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Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary gives the meaning of the word, Silence, as absence of sound; abstention from sounding, speech, mention, or communication; a time of such absence or abstention, taciturnity.
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The film will probably do little to diminish the inexplicably popular indoor sport of Costner bashing, but only Costner's innate taciturnity keeps the film from self-destructing, until the doctor finally journeys to Venezuela and leads the film to an acceptably uncliched ending.
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In Scots law, failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies abandonment of that property is called " taciturnity ", while the term " abandonment " in Scots law refers specifically to a procedure by which a party gives up civil proceedings or an appeal.
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The violence, sometimes quite graphic, seems to belong to a completely different film from the comedy sequences, in which a deadpan satiric style ( clearly inf . uenced by Aki Kaurismaki's depressive Finnish comedies ) pokes fun at the peasants'taciturnity and how seriously they take themselves.
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Jim Jarmusch's 1995 " Dead Man " aside, this is the first formally traditional, persuasive Western since Clint Eastwood and David Webb Peoples's 11-year-old " Unforgiven, " and most of its taciturnity, philosophical sheen, and climactic bravado are borrowed finery from that movie.
