Word: expressionlessness
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...however, an actress. As any viewer of Charlie's Angels well knows, Fawcett-Majors gets into serious trouble every time she opens her mouth to speak. Giggling and shrieking fits aside, her voice is flat and expressionless; her face cannot convey any emotion other than blissful self-absorption. In Somebody Killed Her Husband, her debut as a movie star, Fawcett-Majors does not expand her range -only her wardrobe. This film proves that she can look just as swell fully dressed as she did in the scanty outfits of her hit ABC series...
Even though the real subject of Cunningham's dances is invariably movement itself, his choreography is by no means expressionless. Rather, the plot and emotional tone the audience perceives in the dances derives from the inherent expressiveness of the gestures, not from subject matter or program notes...
Kevin Shaw slumped against the back wall, motionless and expressionless, for minutes. Gerken paced quickly away. Adler shook his head in disbelief. Coach Dave Fish wore a face of granite. The team manager slapped close his notebook, covering the scorecard's tally: Yale 5, Harvard...
...competitions as if she were trying to release an inexhaustible flow of energy, she is almost eerily still outside the arena. While waiting to take her daily medical checkup one morning, she watched Olympic swimming heats on TV, her dark, unblinking eyes fixed on the action, her pale face expressionless, her hands folded decorously in her lap and her body perfectly still. The same, somewhat unsettling demeanor marked her press conferences. At times she would walk about clutching tight to a large doll. Asked how she felt about becoming the focus of world adulation, she deadpanned: "It's nothing...
...from the Italian army, are captured by the Germans and taken to a concentration camp, the greens and browns of the lush German countryside give way abruptly to stark grey and black. The camera pans chains of shell-shocked, pajama-clad prisoners, herded through this labyrinth of death by expressionless guards with drawn sub-machine guns and attack dogs. With Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries punctuating its grisly movements, the camera catches sight of the grotesque forms of the hanged above the melee, pausing to observe the ironic inscription from Auschwitz which overlooks the courtyard: Arbeiten macht frei...