What's the difference between expressionless and glassy?

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.

Glassy


Definition:

  • (a.) Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance.
  • (a.) Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep.
  • (a.) Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster; -- said of the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) was covalently attached to an electron-conducting support, i.e., glassy carbon.
  • (3) The second, with amphibole or glassy fibres, is mediated by fibronectin which first binds to the fibre.
  • (4) The glassy cell carcinoma is considered to be a poorly differentiated mixed adenosquamous carcinoma.
  • (5) From these studies, it was suggested that the inelastic behavior of bioactive glass-ceramics was produced by the plastic deformation of glassy phase on the grain boundary.
  • (6) They tricked us.” When Morales speaks of it his eyes turn glassy.
  • (7) Its mechanical behaviour when dry is that of a glassy polymer with tensile strength about 300 MPa and modulus about 20 GPa.
  • (8) Cell lines were established from two uterine cervical cancers, a glassy cell carcinoma (GCC) and a large cell nonkeratinizing squamous cell carcinoma (LCSC), and studied by a variety of techniques, including histology, chromosome analysis, heterotransplantation and tumor marker analyses.
  • (9) In KGS and A-W.GC, which had macrocrystals in the glassy phase, an intervening apatite layer about 0.5 micron thick was observed between the materials and bone.
  • (10) When bimodal therapy with radical surgery and radical radiotherapy was used, the survival of patients with Stage IB glassy cell carcinoma improved to 87%.
  • (11) No significant association between HPV status and prognosis or glassy cell features was detected.
  • (12) We have developed a new type of glassy carbon electrode whose smooth surface with scattered craters reduces its polarization voltage.
  • (13) The detection system consists of two electrochemical detector cells aligned in series: a glassy-carbon electrode for catecholamines and serotonin, and a platinum electrode for acetylcholine and choline.
  • (14) The cytopathologic and histopathologic findings are presented for five cases of glassy-cell carcinoma.
  • (15) Further, the apparent "tightly bound" state, observed at low relative humidities, appears to exist when the polymer enters into a very viscous glassy state.
  • (16) Photo-switchable ion and enzyme sensors were fabricated by the use of glassy carbon electrode coated with nonactindoped or enzyme modified poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membranes.
  • (17) And if that sentence leaves you glassy-eyed, we'll do our best to explain it as things proceed.
  • (18) Eighteen cases of glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix are presented.
  • (19) In lesional catagen follicles, the glassy membranes showed marked convolution and thickening.
  • (20) A method is proposed for the determination of paracetamol in whole undiluted blood, based on the enzymatic hydrolysis of the drug to p-aminophenol, which is then measured by chronoamperometry at a glassy carbon electrode.

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