Organizing all those glances or nods into something powerful -- that's what really matters.

CNN: Why social media couldn't predict the Iowa race

But he never evolves into more than a constipated rich guy who communicates in pained glances, curt demands, and other signifiers of manliness.

NEWYORKER: Horsey Set

Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his deputy, Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), are guns for hire in the Old West longtime partners who communicate mainly with glances, nods, a few gnomic words, and a deepening stillness that suddenly explodes into violence.

NEWYORKER: Appaloosa