(1) ÔǪ Was my father so uncommunicative that I couldn't ever picture him in any close relationship?(2) Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative .(3) It is this primal, often uncommunicative nature of those who work the land and the seas, and therefore make up a fair percentage of the rural male population, that is at the core of these suicide statistics.(4) But he is still seen by others as being rather serious and uncommunicative in public, especially when compared to the imaginative, publicity friendly ÔÇÿman of the peopleÔÇÖ Dyke.(5) Yair, only a year or two younger than Maya, has become distant and uncommunicative .(6) The baby grows into a withdrawn, uncommunicative girl who is sent to a special school because no-one knows that she was born under a holy star that gives her supernatural powers, making her invaluable to the Satanic fraternity.(7) But there is something unfulfilled about this intermittently sparkly but ultimately uncommunicative work.(8) Mayfield saw that Arning, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative , quickly found a means of expression through drawing.(9) Tolerance of long waiting times, lack of information, uncommunicative staff, and failures to seek patients' views and take account of their preferences is wearing thin.(10) Calce, 36, had troubles with the law in the past and was estranged from his parents, who proved uncurious about his uncommunicative state.(11) Philip Green, below, has a reputation for not being the easiest interviewee, but pity the poor soul who found him in uncommunicative mood when grilled by a financial website.(12) Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.(13) It was quite astonishing how uncommunicative he was.(14) At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative ; at other times she was wildly excited, violent, and destructive.(15) ÔÇÿWe appear to be, my father and I, compulsively uncommunicative but articulate,ÔÇÖ she says when I ask her about this statement.(16) While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.