Word: expressionlessness
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...strange face, masklike, hard, and waxen - expressionless. I do not remember seeing his eyes. His countenance was armored, like that of a medieval knight. It had no motion in it, no light of life. When the Hermit drove along the dirt road, he went exactly forty miles an hour, the legal speed limit, and never looked to one side or the other; his eyes were locked on the road ahead. I never knew him to look at anyone...
...persona is somewhat a reaction to my stand-up routine," says Beat. His own acting style, he says, is influenced by the traditional stagecraft of Japan's noh theater?long, intricate courtly dramas written to entertain the royal family a thousand years ago. "A noh mask is a completely expressionless mask," he explains. "It's unnecessary for the actor to act dramatically. What the audience can see and interpret is limitless." Beat Takeshi is a modern manifestation of that noh mask: today's Japanese see in him whatever they want...
...police, who earlier that afternoon and only a few blocks away had arrested nine members of a group protesting US-sponsored training of South American paramilitaries, stood with expressionless faces and watched the marchers pass...
...colorless, so ordinary a man you could not pick him out of a crowd. Prying eyes would slide right by the slight, spare figure with the bland, expressionless face. The perfect anonymity of a spy. He built a career on being a nonentity, the man you can't know, operating in the twilight world of cold war espionage, where power lies with the man who is a mystery to all but himself...
...atmosphere, in fact, threatens to dwarf the human players in the fore-ground--which may not be a bad thing. The actors, in keeping with their genetically programmed characters, tend to the robotic and expressionless. Hawke's efforts at making a ripple in this monolith are muted and only half-successful: he conveys something of Vincent's conscious vulnerability, but not his dogged resolution. Thurman, though a more emotive actor than her co-star, serves principally as a decorative addition, albeit a stunningly beautiful...