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Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.

He apologized for being incommunicative and told her about Allison's case, though he knew she would have seen the papers.

At least he wouldn't have to spend the evening here in the house alone, with nobody for company but Celia's haunting, incommunicative photograph.

Zee was getting frustrated at his incommunicative traveling partner.

This dance about communication was incommunicative.

The other reverts into an incommunicative sulk.

"The Great Communicator, it turned out, was incommunicative with those closest at hand," they write of what the scandal revealed about the President.

On the matter of Oswald Bastable, however, she was incommunicative and I learned very quickly not to pump her.

For Conservation, strengthened by that mightiest quality in us, our indolence, sits for long ages, not victorious only, which she should be; but tyrannical, incommunicative.

His wife, Dottie (Mare Winningham), is bored by the town, and unhappy with her surly, incommunicative husband.

His vivacity had indeed been damped; but even in this respect he was a more acceptable companion than formerly, since his seriousness was neither incommunicative nor sullen.

Among the truckloads of divorce and breakup stories I've received, the prevailing sentiment is that the man is either at fault or too incommunicative for fault to be properly established.

General Namphy, who speaks French, Creole and Spanish but not English, has been a reclusive and incommunicative chief of state, stiff and uneasy in public.

Talk of recovery may have slightly diminished fears about job security but in many quarters there is growing resentment of incommunicative senior management as it breeds anxious speculation and insecurity.

When rumors flared during the playoffs last season that he would leave the Lakers for NBC, Riley became incommunicative with General Manager Jerry West.

Fish, too, often incorrectly thought to be incommunicative and largely undemonstrative creatures, even 'sing', like birds, and communicate territorial, sexual and social signals in the realm of low-frequency sound.

In exile, as he explains it, he has acquired "the aridity of a single cell living off itself"; his incommunicative detachment induces a woeful sense of isolation and entrapment in his wife.

Friday, in his first public appearance in weeks, the reclusive and often incommunicative general bestowed upon himself the formal title of Commander in Chief of the armed forces, but barely mentioned the spreading terror.

Though he had a major international success in 1974 with "Dersu Uzala," a Soviet production about the friendship between a Russian explorer and a Manchurian hunter, he remained elusive and incommunicative.

Inside the drab rural farmhouse where he lives with his ailing mother and incommunicative father, he conjures up a make-believe life of heroic derring-do and erotic adventure that shocks Novalyne's puritanical sensibility.

The Captain would become sullen at that point - she could hardly blame him for that - and the tone of the conversation would darken, often to the point where the Captain became completely incommunicative.

Yet of the reforms under way in North Korea, Mr. Cumings skeptically points out that the bureaucracy divides into incommunicative fiefs while the dominant military reveres and profits from the status quo.

Victim of a degenerative mental and physical disease that often left her totally incommunicative, she had retired to her suite in the house with her medicines, her diagnostic computers, her cosmetics, her gravothermy and reading machines.

Mr. do Campo said that Mr. Padilla was not incommunicative, and that he expressed curiosity about what was going on in the world, liked to talk about sports and demonstrated particularly keen interest in the Chicago Bears.

Sullen, incommunicative and shut off from all emotions other than rage and frustration, she seems less like a daughter or a sister than a feral mascot, a wolf child taken in and raised in the busy domestic warmth of late-19th-century Jewish working-class London.