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  • I was expecting a lot more emotion in her face especially with those wonderful, expressionful eyebrows, but I didn't see it, even though everyone has touted it.

    "Susan Boyle: What's the big deal?" Ann Althouse 2009

  • The face courses corresponded to the Greek ideal of beauty of past thousands of years, but the lively grey eyes and the expressionful mouth reduced the strict general impression somewhat. "hello", murmured Falkayn surprised. "where you come, young Dame?"

    The Trouble Twisters Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • In another minute she lay peaceful and motionless under the anæsthetic -- a statue, immobile, yet expressionful, as though carved by some master hand.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

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