pressed-brick-and-cement

Updated: September 20, 2024

He beheld himself a heavy, solid figure, unsuitably clad for the time and place, with a florid, square face, well-visored with good living and sane opinions an inexpressive countenance. Not a rock face, exactly, but a kind of pressed-brick-and-cement face, a "business" face upon which years and feelings had made no mark in which cocktails might eventually blast out a few hollows.

Willa Sibert Cather - Youth and the Bright Medusa