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Meanings of unexpressive in anglès

Deliberately impassive in manner.

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        Examples for "impassive"
        Examples for "impassive"
        1
        Alter course to west by south. He glanced at Bolitho's impassive features.
        Success to the Brave
        2
        Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
        Les Misérables
        3
        The Englishmen kept staring in the same impassive fashion with fixed glances.
        The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
        4
        But she spoke at length in the same impassive voice as before:
        The Old Homestead
        5
        I glanced at the strange woman; she sat as impassive as ever.
        Dead Man's Rock
        1
        His rabbity features stayed expressionless; he'd seen his share of bodies before.
        American empire: blood and iron
        2
        The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
        The Blind Spot
        3
        He spoke the words deliberately; his face remained absolutely still and expressionless.
        Greatheart
        4
        Hearing my approach, they exchanged slicing sideways glances before facing me, expressionless.
        Bones on Ice
        5
        Ken Day sat, expressionless, in the front row of the public benches.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
        1
        Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
        Reuters
        2
        Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
        Wired
        3
        I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.
        The last four days of Paddy Buckley
        4
        That deadpan quality was much in evidence as he explained this move.
        The Guardian
        5
        I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
        Feminist dot com
        1
        I didn't know which one because they were all so poker-faced.
        The Guardian
        2
        Mohammad asks the clutch of poker-faced farmers standing round and stroking their beards.
        Reuters
        3
        He waited there, poker-faced, until Payne took a seat as well.
        Sword of god
        4
        He just nodded, poker-faced, and kept his eyes on the road.
        Dexter Is Dead
        5
        That drew wry smiles out of Carmen and Nancy, though Jenny remained poker-faced.
        You can't stop me
        Usage of unexpressive in anglès
        1
        M. Didot's face was as unexpressive and as ambiguous as an oracle.
        Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
        2
        Giordano's original melody is for the greater part commonplace and unexpressive.
        Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
        3
        Fletcher Kale's gray eyes remained flat and unexpressive, but he turned quite pale.
        Phantoms
        4
        Did I not know what a lovely soul hid behind that unexpressive countenance?
        Wilfrid Cumbermede
        5
        Not bad faces on the whole, but heavy and unexpressive.
        Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
        6
        There was an odd smile on his usually unexpressive face.
        The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
        7
        Yet Hedrik Von Taer's face, usually unexpressive, denoted blank mystification.
        Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society
        8
        And as he talked a look of awe and apprehension dilated his usually unexpressive eyes.
        The Heart of Unaga
        9
        Helen Adeline gave the speaker a stolid, unexpressive glance.
        Many Kingdoms
        10
        They saw the face dimly in the half-light, with unexpressive dark patches under the penthouse brows.
        The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories
        11
        I don't care for the unexpressive millions!
        Together
        12
        Ayla studied the wrinkled face, which had become blank and unexpressive, and the white-knuckled arthritic old hands.
        The Mammoth Hunters
        13
        His features were heavy and unexpressive.
        Peter Ruff and the Double Four
        14
        History is a gallery of pictures so individually unexpressive that you must know the artist to know their meaning.
        Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm...
        15
        Newmark, a growing wonder and disgust creeping into his usually unexpressive face, recognised the strategic advantage of this arrangement.
        The Riverman
        16
        Hardly a shade of emotion crossed her unexpressive, Oriental face, but curious Barbara was watching for that very change.
        The Automobile Girls at Washington; Or, Checkmating the Plots of...
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        Unexpressive through the time