What is "unsmiling"

Usage examples of "unsmiling".

He pointed to the silk-draped entrance where two men stood with the snow melting on the shoulders of their insulated suits, unfestive, unsmiling, waiting.

She wiped her hands fastidiously, poured water from her flask to wash her face, turned that face to me at last, quiet, unsmiling, unfrowning, quiet.

The village itself looked on from a discreet distance, tolerantly unsmiling and unfrowning, missing not a trick.

Aside from unmissable massiveness, the man was toothy and blond and unsmiling.

She had the rare and unwomanlike art of witty description, though it assorted badly with her tragic face and unsmiling eyes.

The Moscovites, in fur hats and massive coats, waved dutifully as the motorcade passed, but they waved in unsmiling, almost eerie silence.

Navy captain in whom Vallery reposed complete confidence, Lieutenant-Commander Carrington was normally a taciturn man, grave and unsmiling.

Yun Yun was unsmiling with a sour expression carved into her face as if she was actually pondering where all the terrible noise was coming from.

He drove past the unsmiling guards and down the dusty potholed road until he saw small boys waving him toward the parking lot.

Otherwise the Germans, though voluble, were unsmiling, and here on the threshold of their empire the travellers had their first hint of the anxious mood which seems habitual with these amiable people.

He had passed three checkpoints manned by unsmiling men who looked capable of sudden violence.

He did not look back, and yet he had an image of her which he carried for a long time, standing, white-skinned and squat in a claustrophobic room among the ruins of the awful meal, unsmiling.

Steve was standing, stiff and unsmiling, next to Katia, who sipped carefully at something that wasn't a beer, and peered out over the rim of her glass wistfully at the people around her.

Hoggett, the boatswain, and his two mates, Beedle, the unsmiling master-at-arms, Bunn, the ship's corporal, with the prisoner and Laidlaw, the surgeon, bringing up the rear.

He called back unsmiling, "North of the Trollsteps, to hire my twelve berserks.