Sentence examples for Fixed expressions from inspiring English sources

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

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

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?".

These whiffs of the truth were extracted from a pitiful parade of the guilty: white, middle-aged men wearing suits, moustaches and fixed expressions, fully pensioned bureaucrats, career-thugs in early retirement.Up to a point, the commission has begun to uncover what happened in cases that had been officially unsolved.

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.

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.