wooden-faced

Reminding me for all the world of wooden-faced commissars delivering set speeches to "the masses," who from time to time were expected to break out in "prolonged, stormy applause," city officials tried to ensure from the start that no real dialogue would take place.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

Spotted Tail sat wooden-faced and motionless during most of the show, except for a deep internal growling throughout the Tableaux, but when the conjurer came on he bellowed approval, winded me with an elbow in the ribs, and fairly pounded his fists at every trick.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The scullion, wooden-faced outwardly but gratified inwardly, departed without haste to the kitchen, and Cadfael, released from tension into the languor of relief, remembered Vespers, and refuged in the chapel.

A River So Long 2010

Noel Madison played the villain with wooden-faced charm; Charles Starrett, a brawnily handsome New England actor, took the role of the undercover detective for whom Virginia falls.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

It was as wooden-faced a horse as you can imagine.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

It seemed the locals wanted to keep her happy because the scowls vanished, though the graying man remained wooden-faced.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

'Do you still believe that this wooden-faced and pebble-hearted idol of England has power to send fire down from heaven to consume the French holocaust you want to offer up?'

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

“Good-bye,” she said when they were inside the hall and the butler and one footman regarded her wooden-faced.

Slightly Dangerous Balogh, Mary 2004