One is reminded of Kafka's laconic diary entry for Aug.
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But the laconic musician has always set his own tempo.
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He can be vague and sometimes laconic – not the broadcasting type.
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Lee Jones is always a potentially formidable opponent—his laconic Texan
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Evelyn is a laconic Elon Musk figure, Winston a Steve Jobs.
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He only answers questions on the subject with lame, laconic responses.
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So, too, did Johns's tenderly brushed "Flags" and Twombly's laconic scribblings.
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Critics and audiences alike compared his lean, laconic presence with Gary Cooper's.
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She was watching her younger cousins—huge, laconic, grazing the light fixtures.
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The father's trite, self-indulgent prose jars with the son's laconic style.
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The network soon offered the laconic Brescia a role on the show.
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As a singer, he charmed audiences with an appealingly laconic, conversational style.
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You've got to hand it to this lovable and laconic senior citizen.
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The typically laconic DJ is even finding some time to to wax nostalgic.
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Singer Ling's accented intonations recall Justine Frischmann and her most laconic and cool.
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They said they received a "laconic reply," which they took as a rejection.
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Andy Grotelueschen as Michael's laconic roommate, Jeff, gets huge laughs just from pauses.
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The laconic Senate leader has strained all year to wrangle his narrow majority.
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Laconic and averse to theory, Bill taught by example, drawing alongside the students.
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The instrumentalist is more laconic than Maas, with a more pronounced Texan accent.
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Fischer was the quintessential, laconic rural Australian, always wearing a rabbit-skin Akubra hat.
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Mr Bewkes, however, only manages a laconic shrug when he mentions the feathered predator.
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The psychiatrist was both laconic and somehow heedless in his dealings with the paranormal.
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Laconic and unadventurous in print, she was better at getting the story than telling it.
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In The Stranger, Meursault's laconic response is meant to reflect a matter-of-fact indifference.
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It's a surprise to many observers that the laconic and even-tempered Straus has persevered.
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Their boss, the laconic Bridges (Robert John Burke), has his doubts, but Ron is reassuring.
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Phipps was a big man with a poker face and was given to laconic pronouncements.
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The soundtrack is fueled by the laconic rock of the era, from Weezer to Oasis.
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"A musical accident, no more no less," Mr. Petty wrote in a typically laconic statement.
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Mr. Stankey acknowledged that his sometimes laconic approach might have baffled those inside the organization.
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The Houghton is more somber and laconic, confident in the importance of what it offers.
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It was very laconic: "JE, FYI, JB"—followed by my short bio and some media clippings.
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He responded with a smile and the laconic understatement you often expect from a central banker.
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Grossman peppers his talk with examples of warriors worthy of emulation—laconic Spartans, noble knights, Batman.
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Maybe it's dulled the memory a bit, but was Duchovny, famously laconic anyway, always this sedated?
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That is, it's a straightforward, noirish mystery starring a laconic, mostly noble, unapologetically genre-friendly gumshoe.
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While both men are intense, Gehry is more severe, his laconic conversation punctuated by dramatic pauses.
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Dick, whom Mr. Bacon plays as dry as jerky, is her opposite: coolly dismissive and laconic.
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Somehow he's managed to do all that while seemingly remaining the laconic dude he's always been.
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He was subdued, with the laconic cowboy thing set at a subconscious level, but it was there.
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Tres Warren's voice is laconic and liberating, half-interested and entirely present all at the same time.
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There was a kind of reticence, a holding back, in their conversations with me, a laconic quality.
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Ms. Sedgwick wisely takes a laconic approach to the supernatural and a romantic approach to the scientific.
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The video for the laconic "2 Much," premiering on Noisey, is an accompaniment to that accompaniment, then.
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The donor I have chosen is tall, well educated, lean, laconic, a chemical engineer who researches renewables.
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The laconic bartender bent over his work, and the care he took showed in the excellent results.
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Lartigue is an intimidating figure — a stern, laconic man with a shaved head and a stout frame.
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Porritt tends to request peer review from Jim Bullock, a laconic sergeant who works several floors up.
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As he said to Vulture in 2015: The conversations, the speed of it, could be very laconic.
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As Aiello would likely put it at his most laconic, he did the work, got the love.
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Early films like "Taipei Story" (1985) and "The Terrorizer" (1986) are laconic depictions of Taiwan's disaffected urban elite.
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"I was coming home anyway, but it all started with that random text, really," the laconic veteran says.
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He punctuates the words by delivering everything in a laconic drawl, giving it a casual shit-talking effect.
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The laconic Harry Dean Stanton, with a craggy face Giacometti might have imagined, had stolen his last scene.
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" Lanky and laconic, Mr. Baker was reminiscent of Jimmy Stewart's reporter in the 1948 movie "Call Northside 777.
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The laconic former Colorado governor, struggling to get a foothold in the primary, made a pitch to moderate voters.
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His search — conducted with laconic aplomb by an utterly uninterested McCune — drives Blair Witch's flimsy excuse for a plot.
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Max also hopes to impress Len with his new demos, but penetrating Len's wall of laconic indifference is daunting.
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She and the painter are talking, and Javier does not hear any change in the painter's usual laconic rhythms.
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For example, I can't read a book by William Burroughs without hearing his laconic nasal twang in every sentence.
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J.P. "Call Your Name" — from Karen Elson's second album, "Double Roses" — is a laconic song of mourning, expansively rendered.
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In addition to her iconic screen roles, Fisher displayed a laconic and cutting wit on the page and in person.
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It opens with what sounds like a lonesome war horn, some muffled drums, and gives way to a laconic bassline.
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The other intriguing bit of news in the Fed's laconic reaction was the absence of any mention of increased tariffs.
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Mr. Nagase plays Sentaro, the laconic, haunted-looking proprietor of a stall from which he sells the Japanese confection dorayaki.
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Years later, Australians would honor their missing Prime Minister in a fashion befitting the country's famous laconic sense of humor.
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The Imagists wrote laconic verse with hard-edge description, creating precision-cut mental images — a quality Mr. Wessel's pictures share.
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Perhaps other than John Wayne, no other postwar figure has been described as "laconic" quite as much as he has.
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And it took me a few episodes to accept laconic star Luke Wilson tossing out Crowe's trademark hyper-verbal dialogue.
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A laconic though riveting musical storyteller, Mr. Clark was adept at getting at the heart of an experience or an event.
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The Spartans of Laconia left us virtually no writing on how they saw themselves or their world (thus the word laconic).
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It is a touching scene of laconic masculine love — emotion expressed not directly but through the medium of shared wilderness activities.
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Greenberg's laconic praise of Louis was supplemented by Fried's elaborately, lovingly detailed essays, which explain the expressive significance of these pictures.
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Someone reported on the radio that the blast had destroyed another Humvee, and had killed Omar Ibrahim, the laconic first lieutenant.
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By now Ron Ziegler had given up the daily press briefings, which fell to Jerry Warren, a laconic San Diego newspaperman.
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Upstairs, over a cold-brewed coffee, he said that it was "Hell or High Water" 's laconic script that hooked him.
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They stood there, laconic, as they took their applause and offered it back, as they have done hundreds of times before.
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Brad Pitt is a picture of laconic cool of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but in Ad Astra, he gets to interrogate that same brand of laconic cool even further, playing a taciturn, work-obsessed spaceman who's still processing (and apparently sometimes perpetuating) the ache of his abandonment by his astronaut father (Tommy Lee Jones).
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According to TVLine, he's a "laconic, no-nonsense used car salesman," which somewhat explains the cheesy mustache and '80s frames he's wearing.
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In short order, she is hauled in by a laconic military honcho (Whitaker) to figure out how to communicate with the visitors.
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Del Potro, a laconic Argentine, rejoined the tour full time this year and has steadily improved his conditioning and his match toughness.
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He charmed journalists, think-tankers and businessmen at home and abroad by being very different from the stereotypically laconic, conservative Saudi leader.
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" He listed people with whom he'd like to collaborate, including Lena Waithe, who plays the laconic black lesbian on "Master of None.
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It was, to put it mildly, a laugh riot that injected a dose of much-needed mania into the otherwise laconic chat.
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Despite a reputation for lacking charisma, he displays a dry, laconic wit as a public speaker and has boxed publicly for charity.
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James Quinn, the commander of the company, described Steven Pollard as a laconic, hard-working and exacting man who loved his job.
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Last October's Other Trails EP felt laconic and assured on first listen, but beneath the slow grace, he was searching for a resolution.
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The result is deceptively laconic, an accumulation of impressions reiterating the same incantation on the primacy of death — even in society's upper echelons.
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On Monday of the second week of the trial, Cosby's defense team called a single witness, a laconic police sergeant named Richard Schaffer.
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We're like two characters in an old western movie in which the main element, the main audio element is to be very laconic.
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To a degree, theirs is a hyper-traditional pairing: the laconic, detached Adam, one of Carrie's "toxic bachelors," with the garrulous, needy Hannah.
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" Elsewhere she is pellucid, as well as laconic, and might make you cry: "Three times on Saturday / I remember you / as dead, / mamá.
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One is a loud, constantly evolving yet somehow meditative feedback drone; the other is a handful of laconic, minor-key motifs on lute.
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The laconic 62-year-old has quietly run his Masterpiece Cakeshop from a strip mall in suburban Denver for a quarter of a century.
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Though the track has a laconic, cosmic foundation, however, it's a protest track in its way—or at least a tribute to protest songs.
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Repetition and temp morts, as ever in Jarmusch, have their place, as do the laconic humor, slow fades to black, and the droll protagonist.
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During her rookie season, the laconic Houston native signed a deal to model men's clothing for Nike ("They let me be me," she said).
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Dreamlike and laconic, the clip follows Allen as he strolls around a pool late at night, haunted and followed by memories and former acquaintances.
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He's as laconic off the court as he is agitated on it, and peering through shades he declined to emote for the press horde.
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"Musical differences, business differences, personal differences" was McCartney's own laconic formula, offered when he released the first post-Beatles album, in April of 1970.
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He has a laconic, understated way of speaking, as though he were trying to downplay the outrage and the hilarity that animate his prose.
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The supporting cast is fine, especially Mr. Edwards as the laconic bassist, seething at having to share hotel rooms with the hedonistic Mr. DeVito.
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" She has heard that many Korean literature students find Raymond Carver—the most laconic of American authors—"very dry, and that he didn't translate well.
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The laconic Oklahoma native, who has spearheaded billions of dollars' worth of deals for the telecom colossus, famously maintains a lengthy list of potential acquisitions.
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This laconic cop quietly suffered bureaucracy, a guilty conscience and a new partner, Assad (Fares Fares), as he barreled ahead to solve an intriguing crime.
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Tall enough to be imposing, he's also laconic and shy, with a knack for making jokes so quiet that they only reveal themselves upon reflection.
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She encouraged him, and with a new focus on composition, he cultivated a distinctively laconic style purged of excess and meticulously designed from meaningful gestures.
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As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head.
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His laconic personality is perfectly matched to Miuccia Prada's philosophy that political clothing should be so well-conceived and -designed, that it speaks for itself.
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The remarks, though hardly scorching, registered as a pointed message from the laconic Senate leader, who has strained all year to wrangle his narrow majority.
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Synopsis: A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
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As a corollary, you can usually count on the murdered (that is, the grievously harmed) for sentences that are laconic and cool to the touch.
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Atlanta's Earn is way more laconic than Troy, but the characters share a deep vulnerability that makes it hard to dismiss either out of hand.
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"Zero Day," their first new single since 2016, is a pitch-black four minutes of laconic nihilism, sung like a haunted lullaby by frontman Domenic Palermo.
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I tried loosening up my posture and speaking from the back of my throat, hoping to give his voice-over more of a laconic, nasal sound.
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Zagitova is laconic outside the rink but expressive on the ice, skating her free program to composer Leon Minkus' "Don Quixote" in a flashy red tutu.
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Gaspard, on the other hand, barely speaks at all, and when he does, it's with a blunt, laconic wit, answering your question in about three words.
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A few minutes into our 10-mile run, her laconic answers are a boon, because speaking is the last thing I want to do right now.
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Mr. Torres has a laconic drawling delivery with deliberate pacing, placing him firmly in the tradition of dry deadpan specialists like Todd Barry and Tig Notaro.
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The minutiae of interpersonal frustrations occasion images of spiritual conflict, which are condensed into laconic, jewel-like poems, many not more than six or seven lines.
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Raised in Clatskanie, Oregon, Escola spent his first few years living in a trailer, and he's as good at channelling laconic jocks as he is Broadway divas.
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In the show, we hear a recording of him singing a wittily phrased Dylan emulation, "Mama and Papa Have the Shiprock Blues," in a fine, laconic tenor.
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"It was a very, very good day," Charlie Brink, the research laboratories' lead engineer for the $300-million X-51 effort, said in his usual laconic manner.
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Once 16-year-old Jeanne (played by Jeanne Voisin) works up the nerve to flee her sheep, her friends, and laconic domus, one expects an intense adieu.
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Fats Domino, the pioneering rythm-and-blues musician whose boogie-woogie piano style and laconic baritone made him one of rock 'n' roll's greatest early successes, has died.
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"Now," featuring 21 Savage, is the most easily skippable of the three—21's laconic delivery doesn't help—but a persistent, choppy piano keeps things rolling well enough.
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Spiegel, one of the most laconic business leaders in memory, likes to keep things close to the vest, and he tends to make decisions entirely on his own.
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His deeper achievement was to distill the authentic experience of day-to-day urban corruption into intense, laconic tragedies like The Glass Key and his masterpiece, Red Harvest.
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Ezra is quippy and white; Chris (Phillip James Brannon) is dry and black; Pam (Cindy Cheung) is laconic and Asian-American; Jules (Dolly Wells) is irreverent and British.
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These sometimes held members of his band, who picked at their instruments the way laconic teenagers pick at vegetables, just enough to make it clear they're paying attention.
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Despite the book's laconic compactness, Enia manages to fuse into it a fully realized personal narrative: that of a beloved uncle lost and a reticent father finally understood.
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He can't stop screaming on tracks, eschewing popular hip-hop's trendy vocal croons and laconic delivery for a chronic need to be heard at the top of his lungs.
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Even in some of his sillier roles, he always brings a sense of humanity and vitality, but here his attempt at laconic heroism mostly just comes across as sleepy.
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Heems is the laconic, laidback, sad and hilarious rapper who gave us Eat Pray Thug last year, as well as the fizzy ridiculousness of hip-hop trio, Das Racist.
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Composed in laconic dialogue as an 80-minute series of brief scenes, the play begins at an airport as the three men, now in their 30s, await their flight.
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" In a Facebook comment about the piece, there was this laconic response from one Martina Vialard to the threatened apocalypse: "Il ne fera rien," or "He will do nothing.
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In "The Limey" (on March 31 and April 1), from 1999, he plays Wilson, a laconic criminal who travels from London to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death.
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In Raja Gosnell's canine comedy, Max (voiced by Ludacris) is a laconic Rottweiler with the New York Police Department who sniffs the trail of an international animal smuggling ring.
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A laconic speech in the 10-15 minute range wouldn't require a teleprompter and allows Trump to be more comfortable and relaxed on a day usually fraught with nerves.
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In James Gray's ''Ad Astra,'' Pitt used the same tools he wielded so deftly in Tarantino's film — laconic cool; understated emotion — to build an entirely different version of masculinity.
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And the cool is in languorous slow tempos, minor chords, ruthlessly laconic arrangements, guitar lines swathed in reverb and a voice that smolders a long time before it flares up.
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If her resolution is to confine Stone's rhetorical excesses to the courtroom, especially when Mueller has been so scrupulously laconic, then perhaps justice ultimately is better served for all concerned.
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This is not the idyllic British boarding school of Harry Potter, but a monkish retreat where the laconic instructors speak in Taoist-inflected riddles about the balance of the universe.
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But Doughty has found an ideal vehicle for her wide-ranging interests: a laconic, aging man, born Nicolaas Den Herder but known to colleagues and strangers alike as John Harper.
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"As this riveting novel unfolds — in brilliant, laconic, grimly comic fashion — it becomes apparent that the state is, in its own way, a frightful head," our reviewer, Jason Goodwin, writes.
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Forster's brief, characteristically businesslike turn in "Better Call Saul" is like a blessing, and it reinforces a tone: laconic, no-nonsense, amused by life's absurdities but rarely taken by surprise.
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Word of the Day : brief and to the point; effectively cut short _________ The word laconic has appeared in 51 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Oct.
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And Hilditch does sometimes let the story stretch out into the laconic fireside story it needs to be; he focuses on sunsets and cornfields, on the farm that's Wilf's entire world.
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King built him around the iconic imagery of the Arthuriad, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and Clint Eastwood's grim, laconic "man with no name" character from Sergio Leone's classic Westerns.
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They played "Captive of the Sun," one of the more laconic tracks off of Human Performance; halfway through, legendary Houston rapper Bun B walked onstage and laid down a solid verse.
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Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut, celebrated Fisher as an alumna for her "honest examination of her own mental illnesses, laconic wit and deadpan humor" during a gala in 2011.
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Part of the challenge is Carreyrou's laconic WSJ tone, with its "just the facts" attitude that is punctuated only occasionally by brief interludes on the motivations and psychology of its characters.
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In DEPTH OF WINTER (Viking, $28), Walt Longmire, the laconic hero of Craig Johnson's Western mysteries, arrives in Juarez shortly before the Día de los Muertos, Mexico's Day of the Dead.
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There, following a typically energetic minute from Lil Uzi Vert, the 23-year-old's laid-back style made him seem half-asleep, accentuating his laconic style in all the wrong ways.
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"Casa de Lava" (which was never commercially released in the United States and has been issued on disc by the adventurous and estimable new label, Grasshopper Film) is laconic and oblique.
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The back-and-forths of the character's decisions feel real, and Mr. Dickinson's laconic blankness (you would never guess the actor was British) helps to give Frankie's existential crisis a charge.
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Things got distinctly funkier, and two shades more laconic, on "The Royal Scam," a record defined by Mr. Fagen's inky clavinet and the skintight drumming of Bernard Purdie and Rick Marotta.
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A gifted, laconic former journalist from Australia, Harper made her debut in 2016 with a dazzler called "The Dry," about a farming community that had been waiting two years for rain.
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I'd had my picture taken with a koala, too, although the one I saw was so laconic it was not unlike having my photograph taken with an adorable eucalyptus-jonesing Deadhead.
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A LACONIC announcement by Israel's attorney-general, Avichai Mendelblit, confirmed weeks of rumours: his office and the police, he said, have indeed been looking into allegations against Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister.
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Laconic on the bench, prolific on the page and varied in his interests, Justice Thomas is committed to understanding the Constitution as did the men who drafted and adopted it centuries ago.
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" But the real holdover is Ray's ability to turn small moments into lasting monuments even after the agony, as he does perfectly over laconic guitars on "TOGETHER IN THE BIG BLACK CAR.
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The laconic Bumgarner, a North Carolina farmer who still lives on his 140-acre (56-hectare) property in the off-season, could hardly have taken the stellar performance more in his stride.
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With "The Juniper Tree," he passed on a literary masterpiece of gory fantasy, level and cool and laconic, structured with musical repetition and told with a masterly deadpan command of the horrible.
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McConnell, a master of stifling political momentum in the Senate, promised in his laconic way that the emotion stirred by Wednesday night's dramatic impeachment vote would soon drain away in the Senate.
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The heat and intense humidity slow you down, affecting everything from the way you talk to the way you move; you don't have to be sipping on sizzurp to look and sound laconic.
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Laconic fellow that he is, Sully isn't particularly enthusiastic about all the attention and publicity, while experiencing Technicolor nightmares both about what transpired and what might have, with the NTSB fueling his doubts.
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In February, Marvel published a story by him and the musician Darryl McDaniels, from Run-DMC, involving Groot (a laconic hero who resembles a plant) and the historic Ceiba tree of Puerto Rico.
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Clinton offered only a laconic public reaction Thursday to the inspector general's report, highlighting on Twitter a finding that Mr. Comey had at times used a personal email account to conduct official business.
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Again, you will seek bad art in vain, unless you count the crude-on-purpose banners by the California-born Chicago artist Cauleen Smith, with their perfunctory design and messages of laconic anguish.
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He bore a passing resemblance to that laconic idol of Hollywood's golden era, Gary Cooper, and in an earlier age, Mr. Shepard could have made a career as a leading man of Westerns.
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The choreography is based on the Philadelphia style called GQ: rhythmically intricate footwork with a laconic upper body; off-kilter steps as if on a rolling surface; jumps that twist loosely in the air.
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Roadside bombs, firefights, mortar shells whistling down in the night — men he fought with say he faced them with a generous wad of tobacco in his cheek and a laconic confidence they found contagious.
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For the first two minutes, Mr. Iyer plays the Rhodes with a gentle, almost levitating touch, sometimes chiming a counter-melody high in the right hand as the horns punch out their laconic theme.
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What might be missing from this interpretative path is social-political art considered in terms of the multitude, where the technologies of encryption and veiled visibility prevail against the laconic shape of singular ontology.
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Remember last week when typically jaded, laconic New Yorkers lost their goddamn minds in Central Park when an extremely rare Vaporeon spawned right before their eyes — causing ordinary citizens to go scrambling, phones desperately outstretched?
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There was something almost heartbreaking about the questions posed by the audience to the defence secretary, a lean man with a craggy face, the cropped silver hair of a Marine, and a laconic speaking-style.
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His laconic bio declares the account "Official Tweets" — which is both technically correct, since he's a verified user, and a smirking acknowledgment of at the total lack of anything authoritiative across his fairly inscrutable feed.
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It's a book that has completely internalized the lessons of popular war fiction: Heroes are laconic and world-weary, women are redemptive, only nature is "real," a biplane is always close by to escape on.
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Chicagoan 21-year-old Adamn Killa has been tuned into the future from the start, blending the laconic, soulful sound of his home city with SoundCloud's new school, iPhone lyricists: brazen, carefree, meticulously auto-tuned.
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Wandering the auditorium and stage in a gold bodysuit, the sad, funny figure of Hinrichs, who is billed as co-director, intones his laconic and disjointed soliloquy with consummate theatricality (and often without a microphone).
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Her characters aren't young or laconic—on the contrary, Chris is a nerdy, affable rambler whose letters to Dick range over such subjects as the paintings of R. B. Kitaj and labor strikes in Guatemala.
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The most powerful story of everyday moral failing in Season 1 came in the episode "Five-O," focused on Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a laconic piece of gristle who will later become Saul Goodman's hired gun.
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He rarely looks at you head-on—always from the side—and he walks through the gym with a slight bounce, not the bounce of an excitable guy but a coiled, cautious bounce; a laconic watchfulness.
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Unlike her characters, who tend to be laconic and aloof, and her narratives, which are elliptical and enigmatic, Denis speaks fluently, linearly, and sometimes at great length, with an instinctual command of pacing, foreshadowing, and suspense.
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The laconic McConnell eschews social media, can be hard-pressed to make small talk, sometimes sits silent in meetings, according to those who have attended, and can repel reporters' questions by refusing to utter a syllable.
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At its outset, this Disney Plus series, created by Jon Favreau, promised the adventures of its title character, a laconic but highly proficient bounty hunter (Pedro Pascal) traveling the galaxy in search of his next payday.
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" This is pure Southern party rap, a raucous blend of the repetitious magic of New Orleans bounce and Miami bass with the laconic swagger that T.I. was bringing out of Atlanta with songs like "Rubber Band Man.
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Jojo, thirteen, the most consistently perceptive of the novel's trio of first-person narrators—a group that also includes his mother and a child who died decades before—is, like Esch, a laconic, prematurely self-sufficient kid.
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Those moments are Berg and Wahlberg at their loosely funny best, clearly enjoying making room for the supporting cast to strut their stuff — Duke is especially winning as a laconic gentle giant working on his MMA moves.
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"Almost any other British leader would have let himself be overcome by boredom, embarrassment, good manners or sycophancy towards his powerful hosts," Moore, in his characteristically laconic style, observes of one such occasion at Camp David in 1984.
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The title track is one of the most openly melodic tracks that Savage has put out since his time with Teenage Cool Kids and there's a groove to it that encapsulates the band's essential urge towards the laconic.
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He is one of the best parts of Broad City—a show full of best parts—and he chews up every scene of the absurdist Eric Andre Show as the laconic sidekick who will put up with anything.
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I first became aware of the man's music back when I was first becoming involved in workplace organizing, and my partner, a laconic Northern Englishman from Lancashire coal country, played me a few of Bragg's pro-union songs.
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When Saul says, of Austin's screenplay pitch, "Nobody's interested in love these days," he could almost be speaking for "True West," which is as laconic about Austin's love-story idea as it is about his wife and kids.
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For the first time since Bob Fitzsimmons—the Irish-born former champion from late 1890s who grew up in New Zealand—Tunney's decision thrust a Kiwi into the American press spotlight, creating attention rare for the laconic Antipodean.
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Their violence was controversial but also all-American and wholesome, since Westerns were America's proud form of self-mythology: laconic heroes saving the world from bad guys in the name of protecting pure white women, over and over.
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Their courtship -- as laconic as everything else in the film, which was written and directed by David Lowery -- occupies much of the movie, while insight into Forest's character and history gradually drips out as Affleck's character uncovers it.
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But soon a laconic Texas Ranger, played by Jeff Bridges with all the expected curmudgeonly charm, and his deputy catch wind of their scheme and chase them on a breezy hunt from one broken-down town to the next.
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If that's the case, his laconic version of the ferocious tank battle may have been a sort of cover story: a version of events that was more heroic — and relatable — than an actual truth he was afraid to tell.
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In an age when sweeping Oscar contenders air on streaming services and cable shows get increasingly experimental, "Longmire" seems like a relic of another era: It's a laconic western procedural with a gruff sheriff solving a crime a week.
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The main one brings together the laconic middle-aged lesbian Otto (Patrena Murray) and her hyperactive, voluble 16-year-old roommate, Bit (Reyna de Courcy), an odd couple thrown together by the arbitrary gods who rule Off Off Broadway.
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He is a critic, and a skeptic, of the so-called establishment, and with that worldview goes a certain reserved, even laconic, personality; in my experiences with him, he is generally polite and pleasant, but not effusive or outgoing.
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Among the Alexandrians, there's Haled (Ari'el Stachel), the trumpeter and a ladies' man with two ready-made pickup lines; Simon (Alok Tewari), the clarinetist and the composer of an unfinished concerto; and the laconic Camal, the violinist (George Abud).
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So their Writers' Resort is laconic, rationalist and calm: four storeys, built into the lower part of the peninsula, with curved balconies and a glazed stair-tower to offer a view over as much of the lake as possible.
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He made his name for his intense, laconic performances in films like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant — and his mouthwatering bedtime stories — but Tom Hardy is also a real-life superhero, at least according to reports on British media.
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Her laconic delivery on the verses will lull you into one idea of what this song is, but when the beat picks up and hurries her along in the verse, you can immediately hear there is a different thing going on.
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Fox executives promised us during the network's upfront presentation that Dylan McDermott's performance in LA to Vegas will be as surprising and compelling a comedic turn as Andre Braugher's performance as the fantastic, laconic Captain Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
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New Order's closest thing to a full-on dance album—1989's Ibizia-made Technique—features "All the Way," a track so jaunty it could nearly pass as a Teenage Fanclub song if not for Bernard Sumner's trademark laconic vocals.
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International treasure Tom Hardy may be best known for his intense, often laconic characters in films like Mad Max: Fury Road and The Revenant, but the British thesp is also a father and a dog lover — which explains his latest role.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Kimi Raikkonen, the Formula One Finn who has turned understatement into an art form, lived up to his laconic best after he and Ferrari team mate Sebastian Vettel locked out the front row in Russian Grand Prix qualifying.
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Bletchley Park's code-breaker, known as the Bombe, was being ever-upgraded to compete with it by a group of laconic, obsessive men (including Alan Turing, "desperately screwed up", and Gordon Welchman, "always in the depths of the deepest thought").
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They are also given to nudging, off-color innuendo, particularly regarding poor Thomas Jefferson (the amiably lanky and laconic John Behlmann), whose loins burn for his ravishing wife, Martha (Nikki Renée Daniels), from whom he has been separated for weeks.
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In fact the band's first choice for a video was "Oblivius," but this was not meant to be, and frankly it's no bad thing: "Threat of Joy" is hands down the best tune on there, the perfect kind of laconic pop.
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Marvin Horne, a small, sour man who had married into a raisin-growing family, was known as laconic and stubborn and nothing made him angrier than having to set aside some of his crop every year for the raisin reserve.
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Smulders can pull off the action and the noir patois a Rucka hero demands (he also wrote the definitive take on Batwoman, see below), and Jake Johnson, laconic voice of dadbod Spider-Man in Into the Spider-Verse, offers comedic support.
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Played by John Malkovich with his customary laconic weirdness, he spends most of the episode playing hard to get, forcing Axe to prove that he has the political power and mental fortitude to withstand the scrutiny such an alliance will bring.
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This season — a sequel to the first All Stars experiment in 2012 — featured 10 memorable queens from several different seasons of Drag Race, including laconic eventual winner Alaska Thunderfuck, proudly bizarre, lip-smacking whirlwind Alyssa Edwards, and eccentric Soviet fave Katya Zamolodchikova.
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The movie particularly focuses on Marty Baron, now executive editor of the Washington Post, who led the Globe's coverage to a Pulitzer Prize and is played by Liev Schreiber in the movie as a laconic outsider with a flawless nose for a story.
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Gunn's guitar playing is a kind of slowly unwinding series of ideas, but talking with him, it's clear that it's come from years of practice, focus and discipline, even though the laconic melodies and pretty textures of his music belie that intensity.
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Even the romantic subplots of the last years felt like do-overs, a flirtation with her fellow lawyer Finn Polmar (Matthew Goode), then a fling with Jason Crouse (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a laconic, bearded sex cowboy straight out of a fan-fictioneer's dreams.
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His new album, This Old Dog, is out May 5 and the two songs we've heard from it so far have been precisely the kind of aggressively laconic but nonetheless brilliantly-constructed tracks that DeMarco can bring up when he's on form.
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On the album's epic finale, "Is There Room in Your Heart for a Man Like Me," tension builds around two repeated notes, just a half-step apart, before opening onto a slowly ascending landscape of twirling, laconic melodies and subtly dazzling interplay.
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"Elaine Ford writes in the laconic, present-tense declarative style so attractive to young writers just now, but her tone lacks the disaffection of some of her contemporaries," Gail Godwin said in her review of "The Playhouse" in The New York Times.
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Antoine Laurain's reading from his novel "French Rhapsody" was, like his comments on Brexit, wryly laconic: Essentially, an artist reflecting on his new installation — a huge inflatable model of his own brain — is primarily interested in outdoing his rivals and frustrating his critics.
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Some of the problem with the voiceover also stemmed from the man delivering it: actor Boyd Holbrook, whose laid-back drawl worked whenever he appeared onscreen as DEA agent Steve Murphy but sounded too laconic and held back when divorced from his physicality.
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And while the show's treatment of Holt — a gay black man who's had to fight preconceptions about himself for decades — and Braugher's laconic delivery have always been a treat, Holt consistently became looser, stranger, and more delightful with every episode of season four.
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What Men Want has clever moments where it goofs on masculine fronts: there's a running gag where the male characters act laconic and chill on the outside, while their thoughts reveal that they're secretly exploding with childlike glee about, say, meeting their sports heroes.
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Maxfield, a manic truck-builder, had loaded up his custom six-door Excursion and brought Jon Pratt, a tall, dark, and laconic former saddle-bronc rider whom Bundy respected a great deal, and Todd MacFarlane, a genial country lawyer who represented the Finicum family.
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"Marilyn," with Micachu, sounded laconic on first listen, but everything was slightly imbalanced: the popped snares were a fraction of a second off the beat, the mix was a clutter, and Micachu was singing about shining teeth and watery graves the whole time anyway.
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As of 2015, Italy's most important political players are no longer its dozens of laconic provinces, but 14 "Metropolitan Cities," like Rome, Turin, Milan and Florence, each of which has been legislatively merged with its surrounding municipalities into larger and more economically viable subregions.
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Antonioni (who provides the film's laconic voice-over) documented events ranging from tai chi exercises in a Beijing park and an unofficial, barely sanctioned flea market in Hunan Province to a cesarean procedure in which the woman receives acupuncture in lieu of an anaesthetic.
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Bobby senses the potential in the plans of Oscar Langstraat (the laconic comedian Mike Birbiglia), a "venture philanthropist" (shudder) who wants World-Aid to buy the solar energy company behind the air-conditioning tents the charity is providing to climate-ravaged regions of Africa.
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A prototypical space western with a laconic hero in the Clint Eastwood-John Wayne mold (John Ford's Wayne-and-a-baby film "3 Godfathers" comes to mind), it's well paced and reasonably clever, with enough style and visual panache to keep your eyes engaged.
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If you didn't know, early in the first episode, that the tough, laconic bounty hunter's quarry would turn out to be a vulnerable creature that would introduce a moral dilemma, then I would submit that you have never watched a TV show or movie.
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Relegated to composing each poem on an ephemeral cake of soap made her more laconic ("When I finished, I would memorize it, wash my hands and send it down the drain," she once said), and her response to protracted imprisonment arguably improved her poetry.
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The series, developed by Jon Favreau, is set in the aftermath of "Return of the Jedi," when the Empire has fallen and the show's title character, a laconic bounty hunter (played by Pedro Pascal) stalks his quarries through the chaotic territory of a universe still in turmoil.
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The first two fall back on looping, laconic guitar lines that would play as well in an arena as they would inside a small club in LA. Those are the songs that will likely turn Cudlip into an indie rock fixture over the next year or so.
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Although it's long been second nature for Hollywood to imagine everything south of the Mason-Dixon as a netherworld of clapboard houses, laconic small-town sheriffs, and greasy spoons, a subgenre of post-antebellum pulp has cropped up all over television and movies in the past decade.
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In a radio interview in 1990, a year before she died, Ginzburg, likable and laconic—the interviewers probably talk more than she does—mentioned how much she admired her friend and fellow-novelist Elsa Morante for being able, in her fiction, to use the third person confidently.
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The first two fall back on looping, laconic guitar lines that would play as well in an arena as they would inside a small club in LA. Those are the songs that will likely turn [John] Cudlip into an indie rock fixture over the next year or so.
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Let us now pause to consider a list of things that are very Mac DeMarco-y:Jokes about penisesJokes about penis surgeryTape recordersWork overallsLoudly appreciating unorthodox pop culture charactersPenis surgeryRedditIt's not that these things taken on their own would in some way remind one of California's most laconic songwriter.
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Is this because I was raised by laconic boy wolves, and despite having a mom, two sisters, many besties, and Girl Island citizenship, I am fundamentally uncomfortable in groups of women, because there's something about the collective-feminine-expectation that is like an invisible arm choking me out?
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Working in his lab, Sadelain (a laconic scientific intellectual who is the founding director of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of Cell Engineering, among other things) also gave his new CAR an important new target—a protein called CD1803 found uniquely on the surface of certain blood cancer cells.
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To pluck only Western examples, there is no single "traditional" model that can encompass strong, silent types and romantic poets, chivalric knights and laconic cowboys, the sorrowing Young Werther and the stiffened upper lip, the machismo of the Mediterranean and the mysticism of the Celts, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant and John Wayne.
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Rewind The reputation of the French director Jean-Pierre Melville may rest on his laconic films noirs, but the heart of his oeuvre is his treatment of occupied France — in "The Silence of the Sea" (1949), "Army of Shadows" (1969) and, revived this week in a new digital restoration, "Léon Morin, Priest" (1961).
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Like the first season, its central mystery unfolds in multiple timelines: two children go missing in a small town in Arkansas in 1980, and the viewer follows the case's twists and turns in 1980, 1990 and 2015 through the ageing eyes of Wayne Hays, a moody, laconic detective and Vietnam veteran (played by Mahershala Ali).
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By the time I knew them, Joe wore thick George Smiley glasses and a thin gray mustache; he was serious and laconic, with the faintest trace of island pronunciation ("ten tausand times"), while Menchu was outgoing and outlandish, with a pouf of hair in a vanilla-pudding color that looked pink in certain light.
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The perception of Sondheim as a writer of "sweetly laconic cynicism" (as Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times) was fed by post-"Follies" cabaret acts and revues (including "Side by Side by Sondheim," which was on Broadway in 1977 when I first moved to New York) that emphasized his supreme, stinging wit.
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But the song — built on a sticky, low-riding keyboard whomp by Atlanta beat maestro Mike WiLL Made-It — spoke its own truth as the Compton native savaged pretenders to the throne, stunted for natural hair and stretch marks, and slid his laconic rasp over every subject (syrup sandwiches, Ted Talks, Richard Pryor) in his all-caps command. —L.G.
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A shy, laconic man who largely avoided the social machinations of the art world, Mr. Ryman came of age artistically in New York in the late 1950s, when artists of several stripes — among them Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, John Chamberlain, Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin — were moving beyond the existential angst and painterly excess of the Abstract Expressionists.
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He's macho-laconic as a fellow dog owner in the park, with whose pet Sylvia engages in a sexual frolic that leaves both men embarrassed and aghast; quite funny as that blue-blooded friend of Kate, whose assault by Sylvia is the cause of much raillery; and amusingly androgynous as the therapist of indeterminate gender whom Greg is eventually coaxed into consulting.
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It helps that a lot of this was already happening—there's already a wall along much of the Mexican border, there are already visa restrictions on people from some majority-Muslim countries, there is already massive voter suppression—but for Theresa May, who's mostly threatened future evils through laconic ambiguity ("Brexit means Brexit"), the example of Trump might give her some confidence.
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But spaciously congregated here by curator Thierry Raspail is a previously unseen ensemble of 170 diverse and jarringly inconsistent (quality wise) artworks of less notoriety — including documentation of early droll and laconic performances, some surprising sound works, and his frequently disparaged and dismissed diagrammatic paintings, such as "Related to: Zig Zag Path Zuv Between Nodes U and V in a Planar Mesh" (2001).
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Mills keeps an Alva skateboard in the back of his Volvo station wagon, and when he can't sleep he soothes himself by remembering his runs—taken in the old style, fast and flowing, like a surfer—on bygone skate parks all over L.A. In the nineties, when Mills watched Jim Jarmusch films—a few characters, a laconic camera—he'd think, I could do that.
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Even supposedly helpful viewing aids, like the box that demarcates the strike zone or the cometlike streaks that show you the path of a pitch, take baseball out of its familiar, comforting settings — the laconic pacing, the simplicity of one player throwing a ball that another player tries to hit with a stick — and places it within intensely focused frames that promise, but rarely provide, some new insight into the game.
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