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This reticence had rendered the government impotent since its initial meeting last July.
It was Baldessare Castiglione (in The Book of the Courtier , finished 1516, published 1528) who first recommended black costume as a means of conveying personal distinction and a certain noble reticence.
The Republican reticence can be partly attributed to the ancient rule of politics: Don't kill your enemy when he's committing suicide.
Nothing much happens in the empty mansion, but when something does--for instance, a thunderous pounding on a pair of big doors, as if all the characters' accumulated nervous energies had been focused on one spot--the movie's reticence pays off like gangbusters (or ghostbusters).
Who else could have disciplined him to show such natural grace and reticence, coupled with the noblesse oblige to talk to those you might otherwise prefer to avoid?