Sentence examples for Fixed expression from inspiring English sources

He surveyed his charges with a fixed expression you'd perhaps characterise as anticipatory indigestion.

The canonised writers of the past have a tendency to assume a fixed expression in their readers' imaginations.

A slender forty-nine-year-old with salt-and-pepper hair and a fixed expression, he wore a dark suit with a collarless striped shirt.

With its fixed expression, Sylvio's face becomes a sort of mirror for the moods around him; with the slightest of shrugs or hunches, tilts of the head or frozen pauses, Birney makes that unchanging face seem radiantly communicative.

Her fixed expression of feigned surprise suggests she is willing to risk everything — even wrinkles by the time she is 26 — all for the art of pseudo-improvised reality television.

Matt Damon is also no slouch as Scott Thorson, Liberace's lover of four rather incredible years, while Rob Lowe steals every scene he's in as a plastic surgeon with a hilarious fixed expression, half grimace, half smile.

It made occasional forays into nounhood, in fixed expressions like without fail and no-fail.

This is "a heavy family, with balding men, pot-bellied women, hunched joylessly with fixed expressions".

From the snapshots, ours was clearly a heavy family, with balding men, pot-bellied women, hunched joylessly with fixed expressions, only Mother exulting.

The fixed expressions on the faces in his audience suggested this was not the first time they had heard this news.

We still use "whom" in double questions like "Who's dating whom?", and in fixed expressions like "To whom it may concern" and "With whom do you wish to speak?".