What is "masklike"

Usage examples of "masklike".

He stared at the masklike face, with the steely eyes, and wondered who this visitor might be.

Finally the man with the masklike face seemed to become aware of their presence.

For from those straight masklike lips came a mocking laugh - a blood-chilling laugh - a laugh which Savoli had heard before.

He saw a tall man, whose countenance was masklike, hawkish in its mold.

Her face lost the masklike quality it had always seemed to hold the times when she had looked upon me.

The absolute control he possessed, not only over the outward expression of emotion by gesture, change of colour, light in the eyes, and so forth, but also, as I well knew, over its very birth in his heart, the masklike face of the dead he could assume at will, made it extremely difficult to know at any given moment what was at work in his inner consciousness.

I knew by the masklike expression of his face, the pallor, and the steadiness of the eyes, that he anticipated something that might be very terrible--appalling.

Within the next hour, Lamont Cranston strolled into the elaborate foyer of the Cobalt Club, with only a slight pallor visible upon his masklike face.

Once they were together, Parridge saw no identifying resemblance between the calm, masklike features of Cranston and the thinner, longer face of Allard.

In his turn, Morton Selwood looked toward his friend, only to view the same masklike expression.

Although his face wore the firm features of Lamont Cranston, its masklike surface was ashen.

It deceived him as effectively as did those masklike features of Cranston.

The deck light revealed the steady, masklike features of Lamont Cranston.

Her features were well shaped and had been schooled into the masklike expression to be worn in open company.

Her face had a slight softness which had gentled the masklike beauty she had always turned upon them.