Some are very old, especially Amédée, heartbreakingly played by 83-year-old Jacques Herlin, whose face is set in an unreadable expression, perhaps a gentle smile of acceptance and grandfatherly tolerance, or a rictus of suppressed pain.
He wears an unreadable expression.
Bafflingly, the movie ends on a close-up of Frankie's unreadable face as he gets a terrible kicking from a former gang lieutenant and the voiceover intones Robert Frost's well-worn lines about "miles to go before I sleep".
No one ever says, "Americans, now that's one mysterious bunch!" So feel free to whisper to the person next to you with that blank, unreadable face of yours.
It is a language of suggestion, of atmosphere, of small but telling details: the craggy, unreadable faces of many of the older white Afrikaners; the stern, almost imperial look of those three young white landowners on horseback; the languorous but defiant gaze of the young, black, female shop assistant, born into a system where oppression and humiliation was a given.
In the rarefied world of competitive bridge, where ferocious brains lurk behind mild eyes and unreadable faces, where blindlike screens divide the playing tables diagonally above and below to prevent partners from seeing, touching or illegally signaling one another, Americans and Italians have long dominated the Bermuda Bowl, named for the island where it was founded in 1950.
A photograph shows Menabilly as unexpectedly plain, with an unreadable facade.
Anya's face has an unreadable quality, but there's always emotion trembling just under the surface a quality that makes you care immensely for her characters.
Gold leaf paper scratched with an unreadable message.
This key turns your message into an unreadable jumble.
She switched the probe over to the left hand and he had an unreadable oxygen level.
