Road runners, especially in winter, can become a homogenous hi-viz blur with musical spaghetti hanging from ears and blank, facial expressions.
As a teenager, she posted a video on YouTube called How To Give No Fucks – essentially a step-by-step guide to building up a defence mechanism involving sarcasm, blank facial expressions and a solid dose of self-help.
A former student of Harry Harlow, the psychologist who is best known for his studies of socially deprived monkeys, Carlson, as she and Earls later wrote, found familiar "the muteness, blank facial expressions, social withdrawal, and bizarre stereotypic movements of these infants".
I was ready for a completely joyless experience, full of hard work and blank facial expressions.
Thus, an OC patient may without conscious awareness exhibit blank facial expressions and long silences on the outskirts of conversation circles, unknowingly scowl when they go to a party, or habitually force smiles or behave in a stilted overly pro-social manner that does not make sense in the current social situation.
This is partly due to make-up that blanks her facial expressions but also to the fact that she just isn't the type.
His facial expression was blank.
You – at any rate I – realise for the first time just how stylised "realistic" stage dialogue is, how effectively a confident delivery can disguise incoherence, how a rich vocabulary can triumph over broken syntax, how much the meaning of a speech is carried or contradicted by pausing, gesture, fleeting facial expression or a blank stare.
Sylvia would stop talking, she would go pale, and her facial expression would become blank.
In adolescence, the most prevalent features were "lack of facial expression", "lack of cooperation", "poor eye contact", "odd intonation" and "blank look in eyes".
