What's the difference between expressionless and inexpressive?

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.

Inexpressive


Definition:

  • (a.) Inexpressible.
  • (a.) Without expression or meaning; not expressive; dull; unintelligent; as, an inexpressive countenance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
  • (2) So, on Saturday, when my friend Amelia Bonow posted this plainspoken, unapologetic announcement on her Facebook page , it felt simultaneously so obvious, so simple and so revolutionary: “Like a year ago I had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood on Madison Ave, and I remember this experience with a near inexpressible level of gratitude ...
  • (3) Two Rec-like mutants of Neurospora (uvs-3, and nuh-4) are deficient mainly inexpressed levels of D3, the endo-exonuclease.
  • (4) We see and hear the incomprehension in his very language, which is dull and inexpressive, as if he doesn't really inhabit the words he uses; like everything else around him, language appears to not quite belong to him and there isn't much he can make of it.
  • (5) This is of special importance for practical medicine since it follows that scientifically inexpressible elements must play a part in coming to a rational clinical decision.
  • (6) It is likely that verbal inexpressivity interferes with the emergence of psychopathology.
  • (7) They emphasize the inexpressive character of symptoms and thus the relatively long time which elapses before causal anti-tumourous treatment is started in child patients.
  • (8) He believes that if he could learn to paint, he might arrive at "compassion" (what he actually means is empathy), and that compassion will lead him onwards towards some inexpressible kind of enlightenment.
  • (9) He will always look wooden, inexpressive, next to the mobility of a Blair or a Milburn.
  • (10) The reason soon became clear: he was fortunate, and inexpressibly grateful, just to be alive.
  • (11) Other terms that could be used coincide only partially: finite and infinite; capable of being worked through and not capable of being worked through; expressible and inexpressible; finished and unfinished; possible and impossible.
  • (12) Although the pathophysiology of malabsorption, in these cases, is still not clear, the therapeutic response to pancreatin, in the present case, suggested pancreatic insufficiency, reinforced by the normal d-xylose test and the small intestinal biopsy with inexpressive result.
  • (13) Wagner's treatise On Conducting formulates a theory of interpretation that just happens to give a philosophical underpinning for Wagner's own performance practice and rails against what he sees as the prosaic and inexpressive conducting of Mendelssohn.
  • (14) In another era, Haneke's inexpressibly painful movies might have been dismissed as mere ordeal-miserablism; the noughties saw him crowned as the Cassandra of the cinema, a ferocious moral conscience.
  • (15) On the other hand, during the activity of the 'milk gland' (under action of exogenous prolactin and in natural incubation), only the lateral lobes showed a remarkable increase in the amount of lipid, whereas both median regions showed only an inexpressive increase of lipid within their epithelium.
  • (16) An unusual case of illness of a 49 year old woman who suffered from inexpressive skin rash for three years is described.
  • (17) A thematic analysis of 30 narrative accounts of bereavement revealed nine themes that included five core themes in bereavement--being stopped, hurting, missing, holding, and seeking; three meta-themes about bereavement--change, expectations, and inexpressibility; and a contextual theme--personal history.
  • (18) Undeterred, our "hero" goes on an epic journey to the shops to buy his cold, inexpressive partner a gift.
  • (19) Statistical analysis showed significant improvement in dexetimide-patients with regard to gross motor tremor, facial inexpressiveness, parkinsonian gait (after two weeks) + dyskinesia (after six months).

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