Inexpressiveness

Mr. Doyle often makes a fetish of this sort of masculine inexpressiveness, but in longer stories like "The Photograph" and "Bullfighting" he ably conveys his characters' hearty love of life along with their anxieties about its decline. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

His unwavering inexpressiveness makes me wonder what the hell Tenma sees in this guy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The mandarin accepted the prince's nonanswer with stern inexpressiveness. ❋ Denning, Troy (1996)

Mira wondered at the inexpressiveness of young faces. ❋ Marilyn French (1977)

"I am a priest," replied the young man, his face resuming its former calm inexpressiveness. ❋ Various (N/A)

Her lips were sealed with inexpressiveness when she talked to anyone except Richard. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)

She stood aghast at her own inadequacy, her stony inexpressiveness .... ❋ Unknown (1922)

As Archer listened, his sense of inadequacy and inexpressiveness increased. ❋ Unknown (1920)

Its success as literature, curiously enough for a new literature and a new race like ours, is limited, not by crudity, or inexpressiveness, but by form, by the very rigidity of its carefully perfected form. ❋ Henry Seidel Canby (1919)

Their essential inexpressiveness makes almost virtueless the characteristics which ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

There were the two extremes, the super-sophisticated person who could control his voice so that it did not give him away, and the utter rustic whose voice had such a brute inexpressiveness that his meaning was as effectively hidden. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)

I gazed at each face, and cursed the inexpressiveness of the human countenance. ❋ Burton Egbert Stevenson (1917)

Here, after a little, Isabel saw that her aunt was not so dry as she appeared, and her old pity for the poor woman’s inexpressiveness, her want to regret, of disappointment, came back to her. ❋ Unknown (1917)

But the bad talker has the better chance of success, inasmuch as the inexpressiveness of his voice and face and hands will have sharpened his scent for words and phrases that shall in themselves convey such meanings as he has to express. ❋ Max Beerbohm (1914)

Their evening had been magically beautiful, and even Addie, roused from her habitual inexpressiveness, had quivered into a momentary semblance of life. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Marie could not be expressive to Terry after an "affair," and Katie saw that Terry understood the meaning of this inexpressiveness. ❋ Hutchins Hapgood (1906)