The Renaissance master Michelangelo (1475-1564) was not yet 30 when he finished his monumental sculpture David (1504), ...

He was of great taciturnity, but when he spoke it was with emphasis and deliberation, and no one could forget what he said…” After extensive research, Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), French ...

Mellon’s taciturnity about his Hermitage buy equalled his taciturnity about everything else. David E. Finley, who was Mellon’s right-hand man and at his request was appointed the Director of ...

It almost seems that he was inviting Dorothy to come by his silence while putting Olga off with taciturnity broken now and again by explosive protest. Probably he was reluctant to reconstitute the ...

Tom’s main trick, such as it is, is never saying more than he must. In this instance, his habitual taciturnity saves him from ...

The great explorer’s ill-starred last mission and violent death in Hawaii are recreated in swashbuckling detail ...

Tom’s main trick, such as it is, is never saying more than he must. In this instance, his habitual taciturnity saves him from correcting the elder Greenleaf’s mistaken impression that he and ...

He was in good spirits in anticipation of events planned around his eightieth birthday, and any taciturnity was offset with moments of avuncular warmth and a deep, gruff laugh which came from the ...

His chosen book excerpt was a cultural reflection on Richard Burton's hairstyle in Where Eagles Dare and co-star Clint Eastwood's cataleptic taciturnity; not your usual book festival fodder.

Standing at 6ft 1 inches, he was the original strong, silent type, his characteristically high forehead being inherited by more than one of his sons, if not his taciturnity. He was first stationed ...

The cultural gap between the American Sides and the English is wide too. Cook’s dour taciturnity strikes him as remarkable: most of us will recognise it as standard Yorkshire. And if he thinks ...