Sentence examples for reticent character from inspiring English sources

The restrained and somewhat reticent character of much French painting is interestingly similar to much of the sculpture.

"I became perhaps an internal exile with a detached and reticent character," he notes of the experience of moving among countries.

It's as old a literary device as there is, the most reticent character finding an inner strength at the crucial moment, but when it works, it works splendidly.

Told in his usual exquisite prose, the story centres on the strangely reticent character of Maud, who leaves the West Country after a tragedy and bravely attempts to single-handedly sail across of the Atlantic.

Nairn has plenty of thoughts about his generally reticent character and he's adamant that there's more to Hodor than meets the eye.

Hoffman considered his character, Jakob, to be one of the most reticent characters he had ever played, a straight-laced "corduroy-pants-wearing kind of guy".

The show is most interested in the fractured emotional lives of its reticent characters; now and then it takes on the air of a fever dream or a recalled nightmare.

Using only charcoal and eraser on ordinary letter paper, Ms. Nelligan has produced an extraordinary account of the islands, distilling coastlines, rocks, trees, sea, skies and weather almost to abstraction, while restricting her palette to the blacks, grays and whites that seem perfectly keyed to Cranberry's reticent Maine character.

It's a quietly absorbing film centred around two very reticent central characters: Keaton's depressed hitman and Kelly Macdonald's shy office worker with a mysterious past.

Cooper often played a brave, laconic, and somewhat reticent man whose upright character compels him to perform heroic actions that he does not purposely seek.

Sternberg was already a master of an ornamental bathos — brought out in shadows and objects serving to screen the action — that suggests a reticent distance from his characters.