Restraint, understatement, tending to be quiet not speaking frequently, tentative, Shakespeare and his detachment from his own creation, Chaucer eclectic, low key, an embarrassed giggle around grandeur
taking refuge in off-handed irony and levity, other cultures inherited these traits so much so that Emerson described English taciturnity (temperamentally disinclined to talk) as endemic for 'six or seven hundred years.'
taking refuge in off-handed irony and levity, other cultures inherited these traits so much so that Emerson described English taciturnity (temperamentally disinclined to talk) as endemic for 'six or seven hundred years.'
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