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After an appropriate period of time, some sort of taciturn group decision would be made on whether or not the boats would go out that morning.
Drinking bouts were long, taciturn, and ended in somnolence.
Jack O'Rourke, who saw Mr. Shawn nearly every day from his cart outside the New Yorker offices, remembers him as a cold, taciturn man, who rarely said more than, "A bag of nuts, please," or "I think I'll have some of those tasty nuts."
He's especially evocative on the three "spaghetti Westerns" that Eastwood made with Sergio Leone, for whom the actor forged his amusingly taciturn on-screen persona.
The NYT finds that in his confrontation with DOJ lead attorney David Boies, Gates was "evasive and uninformed, pedantic and taciturn," ( USAT and WSJ also opt for "evasive"), and observes that when confronted with company e-mail he'd authored, he frequently said he did not recognize the messages or recall the circumstances behind them.