What's the difference between deadpan and expressionless?
Deadpan
Definition:
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Expressionless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of expression.
Example Sentences:
(1) A "physostigmine syndrome" consisting of decreased speech, slowed thoughts, mild sedation, expressionless faces, nausea, and decreased spontaneous activity was evident following doses of 1.5 to 2.0 mg of physostigmine.
(2) Her face was expressionless and she also had mild dysphagea.
(3) "It's me kids," says Mark, staring expressionlessly at his toes as he soaks in the bath.
(4) Two years later, resting tremor involved the right foot, and an expressionless face and frozen gait occurred.
(5) She learned from the luminaries of the age: JB Priestley (whom she charges with taking an idea for a play from one she wrote), Bernard Shaw, Sybille Bedford, EM Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Spender, Muriel Spark, who observed an argument at dinner "expressionlessly – like a bird witnessing a road accident".
(6) Meanwhile, in a (seemingly) parallel story, medieval dullard Alaïs must protect the (apparently) same ring from gnashing crusaders and conniving sister Oriane, who is also banging Alaïs's expressionless husband.
(7) The clinically relevant findings included an expressionless face, micrognathia, poor suck reflex, high arched palate, and an omega-shaped epiglottis, but otherwise normal larynx, trachea, and esophagus by endoscopic examination.
(8) The mother then appealed to her as a woman, saying she hadn’t been able to sleep ... to tell her the truth.” Zschäpe, said Ramelsberger, remained expressionless throughout.
(9) And Price is there, smoking a cigarette, expressionless … then he throws the cigarette away, pulls the mask down and he's ready for action.
(10) While previously content to run Holby as his own personal fiefdom – here a clandestine endoscopy, there a fudged cardiothoracic report, everywhere an air of simmering Hippocratic antagonism – the expressionless Swede has ramped up the autocracy to previously unimagined heights.
(11) Toyoda stares forward expressionlessly, listening to events via an interpreter.
(12) I see no objections,” said the expressionless French foreign minister Laurent Fabius, barely glancing at the rows of country delegates then sharply banging his gavel.
(13) Between interviews with the likes of Marianne, who designs "high-end doggy fashions" for expressionless bichon frise Lily, there are wordless montages of activity on the heath, the theme of each being, roughly, "dog".
(14) The clinical symptoms and signs were mostly neurologic, including diminished response to tactile and verbal stimuli (100%), ataxia (71%), nystagmus (57%), constricted pupils (57%), depressed sensorium, and stupor associated with a blank, expressionless stare (57%).
(15) An expressionless, robotic Zac and Sarah are waiting for you there.
(16) "You have shown no remorse for your crimes at all," Mr Justice Sweeney told an expressionless Harris, who sat in the glass-walled dock at Southwark crown court.
(17) On examination he had a gaunt expressionless appearance with bilateral ptosis to mid pupillary level.
(18) As both stood as expressionless as they had during their five weeks in the dock before Christmas, he told them: "The offences you committed were truly despicable.
(19) Their dysmorphic characteristics resembled those of the fetal alcohol syndrome, although they had greater focal involvement of cranial nerves, with a sullen and expressionless face, and they more often had impairment of vitality at birth.
(20) I wanted them to be quite expressionless, so no conclusions were made when looking at them.