We've already watched, in the first episode, as Beth wanders downstairs to the basement to find a taciturn janitor with a haunted expression brooding over a chessboard, but rather than molest her, he teaches her to play.
Mr Leach is at his best when profiling men such as Edwards, Scudder and others, including solitary, taciturn Herman Strecker and resentful, bilious Augustus Grote.
Later it would be different. Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich planter and sallow Cracker, they all had two things in common, lice and dysentery.
The recruitment officer liked this taciturn young man who seemed as strong as a bear, and he pressed him to consider a career as a professional soldier.
He kept apart from his fellow–travellers, knowing Mr. Fogg's taciturn tastes;besides, he did not quite like to talk to the man whose favours he had accepted.
In the last ones he could be seen to be wearing a dark coat and a silk scarf, pale in the face, taciturn from absence on the deck of a mournful ship that had come to be like a sleepwalker on theautumnal seas.
It's the, I think the third book in the series that my guess is like, if I'm remembering correctly, like you're really like anxious and waiting for Jesse's book because he's just like kind of taciturn and all that stuff.
Yeah, and I like that scene a lot, 'cause Batman is taking me out after he's captured me, and he's like, " I'm not gonna tell you anything." You know, a real taciturn character.
While ramblers ramble and babblers babble, the taciturn among us turn things down a notch, preferring to keep mum rather than add their voices to the verbal hubbub.