Sentences with phrase «stony faces»

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn't listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed in identical uniforms, just like in school, always standing with stony faces, setting up shelters and warning signals and food storage boxes.

The leader's calls for party unity were greeted in a half - empty hall by stony faces and few smiles.

I literally could not stop saying «yummm...» and «oh dear, this is good,» and making weird noises (trust me, I'm usually very stony faced when I eat, never letting someone know if it's to die for... because I'm just nice like that).

The morose trudge from the field, past the blank, stony face of the manager.

One or two sat stony faced, ponderous.

«It meant that people were sitting there in stony faced silence.

Industry representatives sat stony faced through the recitation of potential dangers and a plea from concerned scientists and parents to pull soy - based infant formula from the market.

In fact so - called comedies have often left me stony faced.

One laughed his head off and the other sat stony faced through the entire movie.

Not exact matches

A stony - faced Taliban official burst into laughter at the mention of the Petraeus affair during an interview with AFP in northwest Pakistan this week.

The research for this one is less clear cut, but if you're facing a potentially tough negotiation or other situation where you need to keep your wits about you, spot lies, and counter manipulation, stony - faced determination is probably better than smiles.

The stony - faced daughter of a Korean billionaire, whose older sister was brought low by the «nut rage» scandal, apologised Tuesday as she reported to police for questioning over allegations she sprayed a business associate in the face with fruit juice.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

I never felt quite so foolish as I did telling those stony - faced felons and murderers and rapists why I wanted to be a preacher.

In the first of two photographs shared by Boca's official Twitter handle, Gallagher and Tevez are seen in fond embrace, while the second shot depicts a more stony - faced Gallagher being presented by a Boca kit by current coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto.

His opposition to strikes in response to the cuts to be unveiled in next month's comprehensive spending review was met with stony - faced glares from union leaders.

I thought it was instructive that George Osborne thought the remark hilarious, while Nick Clegg sat stony - faced through the whole thing.

The stony - faced ex-shadow business secretary takes 30 seconds to compose herself before carrying on: «OK, we can imagine him (Mr Johnson) on a zip wire between Gibraltar and Spain, can't we?

While Liberal Democrats and a handful Labour MPs rose to salute the departing leader, most sat stony - faced.

You're not going to feel a sense of presence with that person if their avatar is just stony - faced all the time.

Close Call: When you decide to wear a geometric print suit to an event, spotting someone else in the same look most likely isn't something you take into consideration — which may be why Leigh Lezark and Elena Perminova looked so stony - faced bumping into one another at the Giambattista Valli exhibition at Paris Fashion Week in equally eye - grabbing suits from the designer's Fall / Winter 2012 collection.

Not long after the heavy - handed Atomic Blonde slipped Charlize Theron into the high heels, platinum wigs and dubious accent of a globetrotting spy, a stony - faced Jennifer Lawrence leads the way in the bleak, excessively long Red Sparrow, which sets off promisingly but tangles into a confusing clump.

Likewise Seth Rogen and James Franco, who reprised their Pineapple Express stoners act to titter at stony - faced contenders such as The Reader and Doubt.

The camera lingers on Saul's face as he's forced to stand guard and listen to the violent thuds and cries of dying victims just on the other side of the wall, while his stony expression suggests he's been through the harrowing procedure countless times before.

She was debating up until the moment she got on stage, when she looked down at the crowd and got intimidated by a certain stony - faced Oscar winner.

There are some exceptionally odd flourishes, like an ill - advised photo montage depicting the major battles of the Civil War, or the stony - faced daguerrotypes of the cast in their younger incarnations morphing — before our very eyes!

Luke Evans as Detective Fields: With a rock face and a scowl, Fields is another stony policeman following typical cop character procedure.

A father and son stare at the screen where names appear as they are called, their faces growing stony as the minutes pass and spaces run out.

On the same exact road, the Golf wears a stony, unflappable poker face while the Focus roared and screeched in delight.

With the «Tag» series not even considered part of the main Tekken storyline, it really all boils down to a rogue's gallery of various folk who enjoy punching each other a lot — but you've got ta hand it to the team for at least having the sense to balance out the stony - faced brawlers with a light hint of self - mockery.