Wielding batons, they looked like versions of Robocop minus the laconic wit and intelligence chip. |
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The second, Jin, is a laconic and enigmatic ronin, a disgraced and masterless samurai who travels the land for reasons unknown. |
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He was a bright boy from Yorkshire with a dark and saturnine look and laconic manner, and he was already writing strong verse. |
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Didn't I make you laugh, with my laconic, self-deprecatory wit and easy facility with the well-placed bon mot? |
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Ella and Joe do not remark on this departure from his usual laconic monosyllables. |
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He spoke in an unfeasibly low voice, with the lyrical and laconic speech so typical of the Jamaicans. |
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He's nothing if not honest, blunt, irascible, generous, laconic, witty and enigmatic. |
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Becky's a laconic but never sarcastic presence in the film, commenting on Paul's life with absolute confidence and a great deal of compassion. |
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His laconic intellect and twinkling eye will never be forgotten by those who knew him. |
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Is Australia's comic style too laconic to fit the rapid-fire style of a classic screwball? |
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In David McPhail's hands, George is laconic, with an embittered acceptance of an underachieving life. |
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The language in the book is terse and concise, almost laconic, and very much to the point. |
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This book is perhaps the best introduction to the Pali texts, with their peculiarly meticulous and laconic style. |
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Costner's laconic style works for Charley, who is intended to be someone who doesn't show a lot of emotion. |
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McCarthy did thrive on television, where his laconic, relaxed style showed off to best effect. |
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Brazil's broadcasting style is calm and laconic, overlaid with a sporadic bullying streak towards the polite Beecroft. |
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In contrast to the laconic style of most garage MCs, Mills rhymes in a startling, panicked yelp. |
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This interpretation was then bolstered by Tacitus' dry laconic wit and Lucretius' pagan atomism. |
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He's an amiable if laconic sort, seemingly uninterested in talking about himself. |
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Though he makes some brief excursions into consciously literary forms, the overall tone of his writing is terse, colloquial, practical, laconic. |
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You can cultivate a laconic shrug of the shoulders for use when the conversation turns to your putting, or putting in general. |
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A laconic, crimson-coloured anti-hero, he is a half-human, half-demon agent in a government agency that fights paranormal nasties. |
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Instead of underlining the drama with music or emphatic cuts, the film takes a dry, laconic approach. |
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So I tried stand-up, with the idea of joining the chosen few looking laconic and world-weary in the bars every night. |
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It manages to stay above the pack thanks to Lovett's laconic drawl and some fine honky-tonk piano. |
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Clipped, laconic, understated, but with quirky rubatos and accelerandos to convey something simmering underneath. |
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This laconic roller of his own cigarettes was an authority on Australian marsupials, especially the kangaroos. |
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The nonversation of the two horsemen standing upon the shoulders of their townsmen was quick and laconic. |
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The problem is likely to be, at least in part, Hilberg's laconic style. |
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In his world of small-time hustlers, grouchy thugs and laconic crimefighters, there's always somebody with a new angle to work or a new beef to settle. |
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Bald and laconic, it starts out from the image of the fisherman harvesting the river for food. |
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Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. |
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He pulls the reader in with his unpretentious, laconic style, and with his refusal to shy away from acknowledging his own flaws. |
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Her beaming presence and laconic style are likeable and lifelike enough. |
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There is a laconic drawl, an ever so slight nasal twang to his voice. |
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They're an eclectic bunch, occasionally laconic but never unfriendly. |
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The film is narrated by the laconic narrator that Disney used a lot then. |
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With her hangdog look and her laconic sourness, de la Tour transforms a small part into a droll star turn. |
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Mr. Lewis economizes at the piano, and his laconic style of phrasing and harmony places him in the same tradition as Ellington, Basie and Monk. |
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Her laconic wit and tales of late-night lonesomeness hit the mark every time. |
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However, he soon finds the laconic Charlotte to be more than he bargained for, as she shreds every assumption or attempt at social niceties that he makes. |
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McCabe walks into a smoke-filled frontier barroom with its half-heard conversations, its laconic asides, and becomes one of its regulars. |
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The dialogue, though, is chanted in a peculiarly laconic way. |
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The wording of this outwardly laconic Article betrays intentions that are, to say the least, ambiguous. |
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Not containing any further details, this report appears somewhat laconic compared to the financial stakes mentioned. |
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A simple statement of the topic, with the laconic instruction «Discuss» would not probe how far this competence had been developed. |
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Dr. Van Helsing is laconic, he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well to make the exchange of horses. |
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The administration often respects the legal stipulations, but limits itself to technical justifications, sometimes laconic, sometimes overabundant or even purely formal. |
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The article ends with her usual laconic comment about how the local authorities deny that events have taken place in the way the victims' describe them. |
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Although the merit of these songs goes far beyond mere pictorialism, vivid referential motifs abound, appropriately laconic for such aphoristic miniatures. |
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Several codes are very vague and laconic on these subjects. |
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Labels perch casually on wainscoting shelves in rooms of laconic Beaux-Arts design until the late arrival of a more modern look, with the wainscoting dropping to baseboards. |
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Duras's plays are characterized by a spare, almost laconic style that implies that the words of her characters, striving to escape the solitude of their life, are sterile and devoid of hope. |
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During the competitions you were rather laconic. |
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While some Member States transmit detailed information and update it as the situation concerned by the request evolves, other Member States send only laconic and brief replies. |
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During his military service in the Austrian-Hungarian Army he documented in laconic images the everyday life of the soldiers: the long marches, the waiting in the trenches, the forlornness of the individual. |
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That show found its muse in producer Karl Pilkington, a laconic sad sack who quickly became the centerpiece of the show. |
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This creates a laconic, immediately recognizable and memorable image of the building that demonstrates the democratic nature, accessibility and, at the same time, festivity so characteristic of the Paralympic Games. |
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The doctor therefore only replied to the briefest letters, and with an equally laconic message: I will expect you on a Monday, having eaten and drunk nothing beforehand. |
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The band are renowned for their no-nonsense approach and laconic humour. |
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He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky. |
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The nomenclature is equally significant, and its aim is to combine definitive exactness with a brevity that is indeed laconic. |
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Don't expect a wild change of tack from Cohen, who turns 80 the day before the album comes out – Popular Problems is as laconic and gravelly as ever. |
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Jostling with news and faits divers, these stories were by necessity laconic and attention-grabbing, and Maupassant, whose severe economy was a model for Hemingway, had a great facility for producing them. |
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Queenslander Chris Lynn has a deep, laconic drawl at odds with the fluent and attractive batting that has taken him to a first-class average of 43.25 from 26 first-class games. |
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The laconic narrative style captures moments that set the viewer on a journey around the globe and deep into the emotional worlds of very different characters affiliated with different cultural spheres and languages. |
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If they were too laconic, they would not provide that guidance. |
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His characters tend to be either laconic or torrentially talkative. |
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Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur. |
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Laid back, laconic, sharp as the jaggiest jaggy bit of a thistle. |
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