Word: expressionlessness
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...order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding to a subtle warmth, their rapt, expressionless madonnas began softly to smile...
...sitting around waiting to be murdered. At this juncture the stupidity of the detectives reaches its climax; ordinary common-sense would have saved Stockbridge as eventually it saved the daughter. The daughter, by the way, is well done by Kay Laurell although she is a trifle too cold and expressionless to be quite convincing. Jane Houston, as the secretary, goes to the opposite extreme, with rather too much vigor; the other parts except that of Drew, the detective, are minor, but unusually colorful. Jackson, the too-amiable operative, and Jeanette, Miss Stockbridge's maid, have little to say, but they...
...person George W. Brown was strikingly handsome. Tall, spare, one shoulder gracefully bent below the other, expressionless gray-blue eyes, and a chin receding in tender undulations, - such was he at ten years...