inexpressiveness

Is he hiding behind a mask of studied inexpressiveness?

It particularly exposes the insecurities and inexpressiveness of Irish masculinity.

There are suggestions of themes, including explorations of intimacy and inexpressiveness.

His inexpressiveness is eloquent: the poetry of strong emotion trapped in confused and disintegrating times.

All were hard to grasp hold of, in part, perhaps, because of the strange inexpressiveness of the otherwise capable dancers.

At first, Mr. Wikes seems overly stolid, but soon we realize that the inexpressiveness is within the character.

It was a beautiful face - a face that might have expressed a whole gamut of emotion-but which instead was frozen into a strange inexpressiveness.

As for theMuppets that legally no one is allowed to refer to as the Muppets, they too,rocked despite their inexpressiveness.

That is, it would if there had been an actress other than Ms. Braschi, with her Mona Lisa inexpressiveness, watching the affair.

As Jack Sattel has observed, the fabled 'inexpressiveness' of men cannot usefully be described as simply a correlate of their masculine gender role.

And for some people, Sade's inexpressiveness and Baker's impassivity both signify ineffable melancholy, private and intimate and languorous.

Inexpressiveness became the psychological order of each day, exhaustion the constant physical condition. . . . Self-denial was the price of public service that had to be paid."

The music of Sponsus has been praised by Rafaello Monteross for "redeem[ing] the anonymous poet's colourless paraphrase of the gospel text from its generic inexpressiveness."

Arlin did not move, and though I was behind her, I could see her response reflected in his, and I am sure she showed only the watchful inexpressiveness of the cardplayer she was.

With repetitive Bach organ music droning on the soundtrack, the lack of differentiation among the principals (portrayed by local amateurs) is not helped by their inexpressiveness, and the gradual accumulation of vignettes never coheres into a discernible point.

In time, his longstanding emotional cowardice - meted out in garden-variety inexpressiveness and meaningless evasions - slowly alienates the uncommonly beautiful and selfless Liz, his wife of 22 years, and he's cursed with just enough self-awareness to know it.

Mr. Maxwell, who directs his plays, has a knack for finding unproven performers and immersing them in his extreme method of acting; while it looks like great fun, one suspects an actor might not want to become a specialist in the school of inexpressiveness.

What has enraptured so many critics, among them Richard Schickel in Clint Eastwood: A Biography , is that the actor-director has learned to play with his own inexpressiveness--to make a joke of his frigid machismo without (and here's where the supreme balancing act comes in) travestying it.