buttonlike

Updated: January 21, 2026

All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes. Upon his face no faintest suggestion of expression could be discovered by the hungry minds which focussed unanimously upon its almost stern contours. The moustache drooped in something like mechanical tranquillity.

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room