Fintan O’Toole is the author, most recently, of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958.” ...

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True to his calm and difficult to ruffle demeanor and simple, unassuming carriage, Sanwo-Olu responded with philosophical serenity and enigmatic taciturnity, to what was perceived as an ...

Abbott (recently in Poor Things and Wolf Man) confirms his forte for enigmatic moodiness, projecting vulnerability and a simmering derangement beneath Michael’s lugubrious taciturnity.

Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence.

Filling this gap is the major challenge faced by Louis XVI’s biographers. Another problem is one of the king’s own making. Louis XVI raised taciturnity to an art form. Before 1789, this had been a ...

Signs of Burundian troops in the eastern DRC province of South Kivu have been mounting in recent weeks, even if both Gitega and Kinshasa insist the Forces armées du Burundi (FAB) are not present on ...

His final verdict is that Thomas, though full of love, was choked by inhibition. It is Gwyddion who remarks that his father was always putting on a show. Even taciturnity could be a kind of ...