Unsmiling

The service was clipped and unsmiling, which is usually followed by ` but efficient, 'but we sat with mostly empty dinner plates for 15 minutes, the kids (and their parents) getting restless in the hot side room. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Whenever I think back to what my friend said to me, that night outside the theater, it somehow makes me ashamed,” an unsmiling Obama tells Auma, while cutting “green peppers.” ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

In the new photos, Kim Jong Un – unsmiling with his hair combed straight back – bears a resemblance to both his father and grandfather, Kim Il Sung. ❋ Curtis M. Wong (2010)

Two portraits from the 1870s by the remarkable See Tay also known as Liang Shitai—one of a palace eunuch in Peking, another of the mighty politician Li Hongzhang—reveal a diversity in pose and expression that defies the stereotype of Chinese portraits as stiffly unsmiling and frontal, as in court painting. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)

When I finally looked, he lay there with his face next to mine, brow wrinkled, unsmiling. ❋ Kekla Magoon (2011)

The ever unsmiling facade of bellicose Boehner and the cantankerous Cantor are counting on BHO to commit a faux pas so they can call the GOP cops to curb the enthusiasm of the common citizen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With unsmiling faces, Obama, a Democrat, and House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders began White House talks on how the debt ceiling can be raised by August 2. ❋ Reuters (2011)

The Bureau, a mysteriously omniscient operation with cosmic overtones, is represented by unsmiling men sporting 1950s-style fedoras. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

The unsmiling Shindo owns the Cafe Bonheur, where Uru gets a part-time job. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another way is Old School—unsmiling, monosyllabic, The Rock in Early Terminator mode. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Of medium height, stocky, tattooed, unsmiling, with eyes concealed by Wayfarers under a black leather porkpie hat, Rojas was a badass Eastsider. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)

The round-faced Kim Jong Un - unsmiling with his hair combed straight back - was one of the officials named and was sitting in the front row near his father with a military officer between them. ❋ By KELLY OLSEN (2010)