Word: expressionless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...right eye and covered with deep lacerations, Norfleet found his way out of the rubble by following the trail of another victim?s blood, losing nearly half of his own by the time medical rescue workers got him into an ambulance. Throughout the day, Timothy McVeigh sat nearly expressionless, watching the witnesses, sometimes wincing slightly as they described the explosion. Testimony will resume on Monday with more graphic descriptions from victims and witnesses...
Right? Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine, about the human soul? His face suddenly becomes expressionless, his squeaky voice turns toneless, and he folds his arms across his belly and vigorously rocks back and forth in a mannerism that has become so mimicked at Microsoft that a meeting there can resemble a round table of ecstatic rabbis. Finally, as if from an automaton, comes the answer: "I don't have any evidence on that." Rock, rock, rock. "I don't have any evidence on that...
Through all this, the solidly built Maurice acts as the peaceful eye of the storm, responding with measured tones and keeping expressionless his prodigiously proportioned jowls. Spall's sympathetic presence saves many a scene from ragged wailing. As Hortense, Jean-Baptiste offers an almost unbelievable portrait of composure, offering a steady patience and tolerance that is utterly divorced from the troubles that swirl around the family her character is trying to enter...
...some passerby in the Science Center gave the posters commemorating the Holocaust nothing more than a cursory glance. "I already know enough about the Holocaust," they seemed to say. (As if the ignominy of the Holocaust could conceivably be overstated!) I couldn't help marvelling at some of the expressionless faces of the passersby that walked on, unmoved by the nameless faces peering out at their from behind the electrified barbed wire. There was tremendous irony in the quote on one poster which doubtless many did not even stop to read: "Six million were wiped off the face...