Rogers is laconic, in that careful-talking Texas way, but also given to thoughtful, sometimes moving responses.
The language in those old Dashiell Hammett adaptations was laconic but efficient, even eloquent.
Things like that happen in life, and even stranger things, was her laconic response.
He was ours - from his craggy appearance and laconic style to his directness and honesty.
An airy atrium restaurant occupies the top floor, though it suffers from a pedestrian menu and laconic service.
In 1997 a laconic Scottish accountant, George (now Lord) Simpson, succeeded Lord Weinstock.
If Clint the movie star tends to be laconic, the same is generally true of Eastwood the filmmaker.
Father and son soon developed a laconic way of communicating in the office.
And he's off the pair with the most laconic flick off his pads you could ever wish to see for two.
The laconic General Kayani has mostly kept out of domestic politics, but he has left no doubt who is in charge.
In a laconic note in Coke's second-quarter 10-Q, the company said the venture "will differ materially" from what was originally envisioned.
Laconic and reserved, Pierre Matisse would probably have liked this discreet portrait.
Laconic or no, Eastwood does have a weakness for a long, leisurely coda, and "Changeling" loses some of its sting as a result.
Three strangers dealing with mourning a middle-aged widow, a laconic teen and a convenience store owner become connected in surprising ways.
She needs specialized weaponry that Jack knows how to fabricate, and their extended discussion of the technical aspects goes beyond laconic into mildly ludicrous.
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Into the lobby strode a cowboyesque figure, a man, late-fiftyish, wearing a badge in the manner of a star, lean, and, when he spoke, laconic.
There is a laconic, world-weary protagonist in the person of Inky Lautner, whose negotiation of his urban underworld works as a sort of noir bildungsroman.
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"I like playing interesting villains, " he said, calling to mind parts like that of the laconic, strangely sympathetic assassin Joubert in Sydney Pollack's "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).
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The movie has the sort of dry, bracingly unwholesome humor that relentless mayhem can produce if the characters are mean and abject enough and the storytelling is speedy and laconic.
Investigator Petrovich is a very engaging hero, eagle-eyed, with a sharp laconic wit, endless patience for his geeky sidekick and a soothing manner, especially when faced with beautiful, flirtatious women.
Despite his simple words and laconic sentences, he is one of the most difficult Russian authors to translate for the simple reason that so much remains hidden between his words.
At that moment, a strange and ridiculous thought entered my head: that Gadbois had intentionally kept his blindness from me on the phone, and in the laconic phrasing of his ad.
Two of them Vanya, a perfectly laconic David Hyde Pierce, and Sonia, a sweetly sensitive Kristine Nielsen have been sitting around their Pennsylvania home and bickering for years ever since their parents died.
Over a career spent scheming in the back rooms of Japanese politics, he has made and broken alliances, toppled governments and, with laconic disdain, treated transparency and other democratic norms as so many Western pretences.
These self-styled bohemians argue passionately that the Cross is a state of mind rather than a mere postcode, a place where the louche and laconic charm of this convict-established city has always been evident, and where creativity can flourish.
Some pairings like the laconic comic Steven Wright and the Italian yo-yo Roberto Benigni turn out to be duds, but other encounters like the one between the hip-hoppers RZA and GZA and a woozy Bill Murray have a singular, irreproducible chemistry.
Ryan Gosling is a touch too sympathetic for the freeze-dried, laconic Driver whom we follow in the first half, and, once the mood is fractured and he starts to dish out bestial beatings, that stillness is badly devalued.
Like "High Sierra" before it, "Colorado Territory" is a laconic portrait of a lonely gunman at the end of his tether, and the fact that McCrea, Hollywood's favorite white-hatted good guy, is playing against type adds to the film's emotional complexity.
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