Word: expressionlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pingpong. Some, like France's Evelyne Flauw, who fled the stage sobbing and gulping tranquilizers, cracked under the pressure. The skittish Americans turned in credibly flashy but often expressionless performances, were faulted for losing control of their pyrotechnical bursts. Results: the disciplined Russians placed first, second and seventh; the Americans fourth, fifth, sixth and eleventh...
David Stone tackles the role of Tamburlaine with marvelous common sense. Since he does not have to act, he is freed from the gesturing and stamping about the stage that are usually used to underscore Tamburlaine's noisy speeches. He keeps his face almost expressionless through most of the production, and reads his lines with all the restraint possible. He still can't tone the speeches down quite enough; there is simply too much noise and it tires the listener after awhile. But except in his utterly unconvincing expressions of love for Zenocrate during the first act, Stone's vocal...
These are the principal characters of The Cincinnati Kid, a new novel by Richard Jessup which explores the world of professional card playing: its drama, its code of ethics, and the emotions which lie behind the deceptively expressionless faces at a poker table...
...Cart & by Truck. Colombia's five largest metropolitan areas average 6% annual growth, while the country's population as a whole gains only 3% annually. Sao Paulo accepts 5,000 newcomers each day. They arrive in donkey carts, on buses and flatbed trucks, hungry, weary and expressionless. Some cannot write their own names; in the Andean countries many of the migrants speak only an Indian dialect. But they hope for food and jobs, have heard of new factories, schools and hospitals in the big cities. Above all, there is the knowledge that things cannot get worse...
DAVID BERGER-Cober, 14 East 69th. From a sky of lurid pink springs a flurry of flying hoofs, rippling manes and neighing horses on a clamorous carrousel. Their youthful riders are singularly expressionless; it is hardly a merry merry-go-round. Yet Berger's children of enchained emotions project their fancy into a world of living color, an incarnation of their wildest dreams. Through...