Usage of "fixed expression"

ruso

устойчивое выражение

portugués

expressão

español

expresión

Form of expression that has taken on a more specific meaning than the expression itself.

expresión

Uso de fixed expression en inglés

The filmy look and the fixed expression of them horrified me. 
 The Moonstone 

There was a determined, fixed expression on the pale lips that frightened me. 
 Five Nights: A Novel 

Anna Carroll, quite pale, with an odd, fixed expression, stood near her brother. 
 The Debtor: A Novel 

The first shows him, evidently in pain, staring before him with a fixed expression. 
 A Wodehouse Miscellany: Articles & Stories 

His heavy-lidded eyes had the fixed expression of a statue's. 
 Something New 

George stood looking at him with a fixed expression. 
 Ranching for Sylvia 

His face had acquired a fixed expression of being screwed to meet a shock of sound. 
 The Portion of Labor 

But Shimmer read his anger in his fixed expression and the deep lines bracketing his mouth. 
 Assail 

Opposite him stood Faustina Montevarchi, her face luminously pale, her eyes almost wild in their fixed expression. 
 Sant' Ilario 

Aside from the sad, pained look due to habitual melancholy, his face had no characteristic or fixed expression. 
 The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete 

Aside from his sad, pained look, due to habitual melancholy, his face had no characteristic or fixed expression. 
 Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri... 

Anya knew that fixed expression. 
 Jacinto's Remnant 

Kat maintained a fixed expression. 
 Map of bones 

Resting two fingers on Rand's chest, Morr caught his tongue between his teeth with a fixed expression and wove Healing. 
 Wheel of Time [08]: The Path of Daggers 

Her blue eyes had a fixed expression in them as if she were speculating, appraising the clean good-looking young Brahmin doctor. 
 The Rains Came 

She too seems not to notice the people around her, but looks straight ahead, with a rather strange, almost fixed expression. 
 Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev 