Word: expressionless
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...would like to begin," said Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, "by expressing our sincere appreciation to Mr. Robinson, the mayor of San Francisco, for the hospitality accorded to us in this marvelous city." His voice was flat and expressionless; before him in anxious rows sat New Zealanders, Nicaraguans and Norwegians, Pakistanis, Panamanians and Paraguayans; the western suits of the Yemenites showed from beneath their Arab robes...
...doors had not yet opened, and I stood there until be came back, expressionless now, with my newspaper folded into a neat packet, which he had tucked under his right armpit. Finally, the door opened. It let him go first and moved down to the other end of the platform waiting until be had disappeared into a crowd of workmen and Peoples' Police...
...stage curtain, delivering mild jokes that were greeted with uproarious laughter supplied by a film sound track. Jack Benny appeared as a foil and traded fairly predictable banter with Crosby. Bing sang four songs, danced with a chorus, and was so smothered in facial makeup as to be expressionless. The most exciting thing in the show was long-legged Sheree North, a pretty girl with a modest ability to read funny lines and a whole-bodied way of dancing. Crosby's next TV show, to appear when he has digested the lessons learned in this one, cannot help...
Michelangelo's Conversion of St. Paul, in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel, had always troubled a Vatican official named Filippo Magi. The composition is dominated not by the prostrate St. Paul but by his horse, which Magi described as having "an expressionless and towering head similar to that of a mule." And curiously, the horse was bridled, though Michelangelo made a habit of painting horses without bridles. Last summer Magi persuaded a Vatican colleague, Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, that the strange beast might be the result of overpainting by some unknown bungler. De Campos took an infra...
Billy Lucas had been a pathetic, apparently hopeless invalid ever since the third day after his birth in Palo Alto, Calif. That was three years ago. Billy's face was expressionless, his eyes never seemed to move, he could barely raise his eyelids. He could hardly swallow, and for two years he had to be fed through a tube. His arms were so feeble that he could not lift a spoon to his mouth, and he had to have steel braces to be able to stand...