Sentence examples for receiving blank stares from inspiring English sources

I stop and ask directions several times, receiving blank stares in response.

His heartfelt lesson plans — write in your journal while listening to music; analyze Beatles songs like poems — received blank stares.

Yet ask Americans today what they know about him and you are likely to receive blank stares.

Ask him or her the piece's layout, what key it is in, and receive blank stares.

You could try to guess based on their looks, but when I raved to goth kids at school about a heavy metal band from Finland I received blank stares, and while I did geek out with the nerds about the newest Lord of the Rings movie, none of them had read the books first.

A lot of us have tried PFLAG but received the blank stares that we've become so familiar with.

WHEN I told people that I would be taking a platform tennis lesson in Queens, I received many blank stares.

WHEN I told my friends that I was planning a family vacation in Wisconsin, I received either blank stares or teasing comments about the admittedly unsexy specialties for which the state is known.

When I pointed out that it was an Abu Ghraib caketop to a group of ladies looking at the cake tops, I received totally blank stares, because nothing pierces the wedding fog.

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta introduced himself at a cocktail reception not long ago and received a blank stare from a woman, an expatriate new to Kenya, standing before him.

It was not a surprise, Valentine said, not after Wilpon had told him to "play every game like it's the World Series" over the last month of the season, and yet the team kept losing; not after his longtime squabbling with General Manager Steve Phillips; not after he sought more power in assembling the team's roster and initially received a blank stare from Wilpon.