Sentence examples for expression at once from inspiring English sources

Her wizened face wore a quizzical, inward expression, at once witty and distant, but she spoke with great presence.

Clinton was greeted with a long ovation, which she met with her signature slow head-nodding and an expression at once pleased and pained.

An anonymous portrait from the mid-1780s depicts an elegantly dressed man with an intelligent expression, at once probing and slightly wary, who could pass for a courtier at Versailles.

The most powerful portrayal of such return is surely Piero della Francesca's "Resurrection," where Christ — his expression at once stunned and all-knowing (for he has seen what we can only imagine and is experiencing the unthinkable) — stands, one leg on a parapet, at the very moment of his rising.

A different technique allows expressions to "evolve" on an image, allowing researchers access to the whole expression at once.

In "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)," a woman in a red party hat and white gloves sips from a teacup, her expression at once bored and challenging.

Her expression became at once pathetic and self-mocking.

Imagine an expression of, at once, utter bemusement and a desire to appear to understand what you were saying, Joe.

"You dohn like Clementi?" His expression was at once sad and combative.

But the expression 'all at once' is not meant to indicate a moment of time, but the absence of temporal sequence, though not, in the view of some, the absence of duration.

I see this expression at least once a day in my 12 year old daughter.