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Updated: June 17, 2025
There are times when the inexpressiveness of life comes near to overwhelming me, when it seems to me we are all asleep or entranced, and but a little way above the still cows who stand munching slowly in a field. Why couldn't we and why didn't we talk together?... We fear bathos too much, are shyly decent to the pitch of mania. We have neither the courage of our bodies nor of our souls....
Their evening had been magically beautiful, and even Addie, roused from her habitual inexpressiveness, had quivered into a momentary semblance of life. "I never I never " she gasped out helplessly when they had regained their hotel bedroom, and sat staring back entranced at the evening's evocations.
I gazed at each face, and cursed the inexpressiveness of the human countenance. "Have you arrived at a verdict, gentlemen?" asked the coroner. "We have, sir," answered one of them, and handed a paper to the clerk. "Is this your verdict, gentlemen?" asked the coroner. "Do you all concur in it?" They answered in the affirmative as their names were called.
"Look at the face of the deceased," he said, with a sort of spare enunciation, coercive somehow in its inexpressiveness. "Ye are sure ye never viewed that man afore yestiddy?" "I hev said so an' swore it," said Hite, a trifle nettled. "Ye rode in comp'ny a hour or mo' an' never asked his name?" "I never axed him no questions, nor he me," replied Hite, "'ceptin' 'bout'n the witch-face.
Old Grammont as he appeared upon the pillow of his bed by the light of a rose-shaded bedside lamp, was a small-headed, grey-haired gentleman with a wrinkled face and sunken brown eyes. Years of business experience, mitigated only by such exercise as the game of poker affords, had intensified an instinctive inexpressiveness.
It was as if he would take the fortunes of the day by surprise. His wonderful white hair, which made him noticeable without ever making him venerable, was tumbled on his head; he looked from his pillow with the immobility and inexpressiveness of a wax figure. To his valet's murmured "good morning," he frowned slightly, as if in some preoccupation of his thoughts.
As Archer listened, his sense of inadequacy and inexpressiveness increased. The boy was not insensitive, he knew; but he had the facility and self-confidence that came of looking at fate not as a master but as an equal.
"He saw me a year ago," the young girl went on, "and he has been thinking of me ever since." Her tone, in speaking, was peculiar; it had a kind of studied inexpressiveness, which was yet not the vulgar device of a drawl. "I must make your daughter's bust that 's all, madame!" cried Roderick, with warmth. "I had rather you made the poodle's," said the young girl. "Is it very tiresome?
Marie could not be expressive to Terry after an "affair," and Katie saw that Terry understood the meaning of this inexpressiveness. Also, when Terry went away for a day or two, without an explanation, Marie was equally "imaginative." Both were intensely proud, both intensely interested in their "individuality."
Statira Belden had come to do the decencies; Eliza Marshall received her with the grim inexpressiveness of a granite bowlder. "My husband is resting quietly to-day," she said, in response to Mrs. Belden's inquiries. He was unconscious under chloral, after three nights of open-eyed torment. Mrs. Belden passed one of her large, smooth gloves over the other and praised the house.
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