Both Uses of
taciturn
in
East of Eden
- He had a rich deep voice, good both in song and in speech, and while he had no brogue there was a rise and a lilt and a cadence to his talk that made it sound sweet in the ears of the taciturn farmers from the valley bottom.†
Chpt 2
- The youth, inexperience, and taciturnity of Alice Trask all turned out to be assets for Cyrus.
Chpt 3 *taciturnity = reserve and reticence (tendency not to communicate)
Definition:
with a tendency to be reserved and not to talk
Synonym Comparison (if you're into word choice):
Consider using reticent rather than taciturn when the reluctance to talk is brought on by a particular situation rather than being a general disposition.
Consider using reticent rather than taciturn when the reluctance to talk is brought on by a particular situation rather than being a general disposition.