It's more difficult to read someone's face when it has a serious expression.
At a press conference, Davutoğlu expressed his unwavering fidelity to his former boss, but it was not difficult to read disappointment on his face — perhaps reflecting his astonishment that Erdoğan had finally come for him.
As the disease progresses, the center of the field of view begins to blur, making it difficult to read, drive and recognize faces.
Collier told Modell that he could no longer hear his players, and it was difficult to read their lips through new face masks that obscured their mouths.
At the same time, it's difficult to read the description of an alien face as "a placenta with two foetuses – maybe three-month-old twins, hairless and blind – nestled head to head, knee to knee", or an energy-saving lightbulb as "a segment of radioactive intestine suspended from a wire", without remembering the hallucinatory intensity of work such as Under the Skin.
Mustafa said this with a straight face that was difficult to read.
Cleaned of the goth warpaint that made it a mask in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mara's face is subtly difficult to read, even when not hidden by a curtain of light-brown hair.
Venus, who is surly, aloof or simply icily indifferent – that face is very difficult to read – has handed over her pudgy son, an aged baby with a pronounced widow's peak, to Time, who looks a little like a sentimental pantomime sailor.
Eliminate the face-to-face aspect of communication and it becomes difficult to read the sentiment or emotion behind what people are actually trying to communicate.
They look difficult to read but they are not.
The gauge faces and the radio's digital display panel can be difficult to read, but, hey, it's only a problem during most daylight hours.
