Rahman is more laconic; the kind of guy who rips the piss out of his dotty dad with a dry humour that is the very definition of Australian filial love.
And like these filmmakers, he builds a highly effective sense of drama through restraint, through slowness itself; he is possessed of a kind of laconic gravitas.
Spark is being glib, of course, but in that glibness is a kind of laconic dignity and an instinct for privacy.
"Edie" is the title of both a poem, recited with a kind of laconic jazz delivery by Ms. Smith, and a silk-screen of the poem printed over a hazy image of Edie Sedgwick.
"We're at war in Iraq," he snarled at one point, "because some tongue-tied, bible-thumping fuckwit of a President convinced enough people he was a kind of laconic Gary Cooper hero".
Throughout, Billy May's arrangements have plenty of starch to them, but "Lazy River" borders on a kind of laconic grace, two voices whiling the day away before drifting home.
But he is unequalled at providing, as here, a voice for the voiceless, and stands alongside Cormac McCarthy in his presentation of a certain kind of laconic masculinity in which sensitivity and aggression are constantly in conflict.
Mr. McEwan's tales, about twisted sexuality, are slightly creepy but told in a wry, laconic tone with a kind of elegance; onstage, they become simply elliptical and unsettling.
So it was nice to put hints of that kind of detached, laconic Hitler in the Berghof scene that the people didn't get to see, in a scene that genuinely happened, and all the specifics of that leading up to [it].
