In "Minus 16," based on excerpts from Mr. Naharin's past works and a welcome addition to last season's repertory, dancers trade their customary expressions of joy or sorrow for impassive stares.
In her resignation statement, she declined to offer the customary expressions of praise and thanks to the prime minister, and instead declared that she wanted to "help the Labour party to reconnect with the British people, to remind them that our values are their values, that their hopes and dreams are ours too".
Goffman considered gender display as a process in which the two parties interacting with each other in certain social situations that are seemingly simple, with customary expressions while transmitting personal gender identity (Goffman 1997).
Though Stevens's customary facial expression is the faintly smiling, middle-distance squint of someone lost in abstraction, he can be direct and combative in the extreme and has the reputation, as a prominent G.O.P. consultant who admires Stevens's talent put it, of one who "does not play well with others".
The dean of conservative pundits, now 75, wore a crisp pinstripe shirt and gray slacks, his customary owlish Mona Lisa expression a bit tighter than usual, owing to the subject matter.
It is customary to normalize RNA expression for genes of interest to that of a housekeeping gene of non-variable expression, and in fact rRNA is often used for this purpose.
Liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons are so intimately associated in nature that it has become customary to shorten the expression "petroleum and natural gas" to "petroleum" when referring to both.
Brennan cited Mutual, but he saw fit to add definitions of "prurient" from other sources as well: a "tendency to excite lustful thoughts," a "shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion," and an expression "substantially beyond customary limits of candor".
It was anything but Formula One's customary processional racing.
New construction with its customary green fence.
