Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), a corpulent, crusty, poker-faced loner of a police officer who makes the Quiet Man seem downright loquacious.
Last year he warned his doubters not to underestimate "the quiet man", warning his detractors that he would not shirk in his mission to transform his party.
Johnny Burke, one of the greatest lyricists of the golden age of Hollywood musicals, tried to bring John Ford's "The Quiet Man" to Broadway in 1961 and failed dismally.
The big screen at city hall will show live rugby and GAA action over the St Patrick's Day weekend, as well as films including The Quiet Man and Into the West.
His best known Irish movie to date, though, is The Quiet Man, a 1952 Oscar-winning film shot in County Mayo about a retired Irish-American boxer, played by John Wayne, who returns to the Irish town he was born in.
The 2002 death of her German-born husband, Prince Claus, took a toll on her, and it was apparent how deep her reliance on the quiet man had been: she was filmed leaning heavily, almost hanging, on Prince Friso's arm as they entered the church for her spouse's funeral.
No one was watching the quiet, normally private man at the time.
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And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs.
"We were raised to be quiet and let the man talk first, " says Idelsa Mendez, who moved to the US at the age of 18 before her family followed later.
Excerpt: Hancock held himself back, did not know Couch well, but there was something in the man, something quiet and dark and dangerous, something he had begun to see in a few of the others, had seen it now in himself, that nameless thing: Men who advanced with their troops and did not hear the muskets and stepped over their dead without looking down.
In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.
The hero, Clark (Matthew Broderick), is a quiet young man from Vermont who has just entered the N.
And while Muhammad Ali could not join us tonight, it is worth reflecting upon his remarkable contributions, as he's grown from an unmatched fighter in the ring to a man of quiet dignity and grace who continues to fight for what he believes -- and that includes the notion that people of all faiths holds things in common.
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He described the man who opened fire as quiet and unassuming.
In another corner the quiet and polite Dr Aguila - the man who was in charge of the foreign press for the Libyan government - walked past me, still in the casual untucked shirt he wears, but now clutching a gun.
By the sixth form, he had gone from a quiet studious boy to a popular outgoing young man, known among friends as the life and soul of a party.
The employee, an "inoffensive and quiet" but talented man versed in several programming languages, "spent less than one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him", Mr Valentine said.
He said his client was a shy, placid and quiet man who had not re-offended in the years since the murder.
The quiet, dogged Mr Jospin could turn out to be the right man to help them through.
People who knew him described him as a quiet man with no friends who spent a lot of time on the internet.
"It was quiet, it was gentle and in every kind of way it reflected the man, " he said.
Our headquarters here in Woodcliff Lake is a very quiet place today as we all reflect on the loss of this good and wonderful man.
Mwaruwari, of whom so much had been expected after such good form in France, had a relatively quiet match, being man-marked by Frezghi Berhe for much of the game.
This seemingly quiet, unassuming man has made just about every mistake possible in both creating and dealing with the crisis.
"You kept quiet whilst an entirely innocent man was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced for this murder, " the judge told Castree.
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