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stone-faced
adjective
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▪ Ana, stone-faced, was washing clothes in the trough in the yard.
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stone-faced

a. stony-faced

Usage examples of "stone-faced".

He leaned toward Chanar, who was sitting stone-faced while Koja talked.

The careful pavane of jugs, orchestrated by a terrified Rushad, served by stone-faced women.

Rather, he stood at a safehouse window, listening stone-faced as the ringing of bells and the firing of salutes announced the declaration of the new Republic of Vonahr.

Harry stood, stone-faced, as the paramedics zipped what was left of Suzie Walker into a body bag, then placed her on a gurney and wheeled her into the ambulance.

The speaker, an Andorian named Bokor, sat stone-faced at his table in the Velvet Cluster dining room.

The scene where she reluctantly performs various aquatic tricks in exchange for fresh fish, while a jury of stone-faced judges hold up signs scoring her performance, succeeds as a hilarious parody of both the Olympics and trained dolphin shows, although, admittedly, the whole sequence is a good deal campier than the series usually gets.

He even got a nod from the stone-faced Wall Street executive who never before had given him the time of day.

Dukat ambled down the steps, nodding silent laudto his officers and crew, shining in the adoration ofthe Cardassians who saw this post as so vindicating,pretending that the stone-faced Jem Hadar, who hadno expressions at all, were adoring him too.

Every time he approached a sitting group, perforce on hands and knees in the low-ceilinged room, stone-faced security frogs came out of the woodwork and herded him back to his spot.

Rainyn, an apple-cheeked young woman who also served on a soarer, occupied the chair next to Senine, and stone-faced, flat-eyed Kurin sat beside Shielyn like a black carving.

Two stone-faced policemen in heavy greatcoats and fur shapkas sat in the warmth of the cab.

Stone-faced, the small grey man had begged leave to sew the boys' heads back onto their shoulders, so they might be laid in the crypts below with the other Stark dead.

The other side offered a stippled portrait with the look of stone-faced gravity that seemed the man's natural expression.

On the other hand, if it's an election thing, we can ignore groups who don't vote very much, like trade school metal heads and stone-faced urban homeboys.