She says nothing after this encounter, remaining silent or speechless for the rest of the mask, but Milton clearly finds, I think, something threatening here.
Our party now included my translator -susan-who was born in Nanjing but raised in the u.s.-and a wordless man who had suddenly appeared ostensibly a close friend of Mr. Chen's called Mr. Shi.
His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".