Word: emotionlessness
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...social opposite and some-time-fiance, the lusty sailor Richard, played on some evenings by Douglas Miller. Richard should be pure comic relief for the audience: a nautical libertine among the prim British. Unfortunately, although Miller's voice is strong and expressive, his stiff, blocky stage presence and emotionless facial expressions make him ill-suited to this comic role...
...Malone, the boss of cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was at TCI headquarters in Denver. Both executives were appalled as they watched the FCC announce a 7% reduction in cable rates, on top of a 10% rollback ordered last year. Malone immediately telephoned Smith. "Ray," Malone said in an emotionless voice, "this is a bigger hit than we thought." Responded Smith: "Can you fly to New York...
...country's ravaged medical system and desperate doctors and patients. But even on the street, the hunger and suffering were palpable. "I was shocked by the look on people's faces," Cleveland physician Nadia al-Kaisi told TIME, the only U.S. publication represented on the tour. "They are all emotionless, desperate faces without smiles...
Duckworth's Evelyn is too strong-willed to be as confused as she is throughout the play, although her conviction makes the jarring ending somewhat credible. Mecca Nelson brings life to the flat, emotionless Ruth, Evelyn's roommate. Tim Nelson's cameo as a radical, energetic speaker captures the emotional tension of the civil rights movement, and he succeeds in making his dogmatic lines interesting and even inspirational...
...narrator has no such trauma in his past. In fact, he has never confronted any kind of adversity--he is emotionless, and Anna is the only thing that can make him feel alive. Unfortunately, these reasons never seem to convince the reader of the two characters' need for the affair nor of their passion...