Yet, when people are asked their thoughts on Petite Sirah the response is usually a blank stare.

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The figure looked at Mark with a blank stare and slowly faded away, leaving without providing an answer.

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- There was a time when the name Julia Roberts would have drawn a blank stare from movie fans.

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Smaller markets aren't always covered by the financial press and if you ask your broker for some research on Kazakhstan you might get a blank stare.

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He responds with a blank stare.

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Even among such intimates, boundaries are observed, for fear of crossing an unseen line and triggering a stare of blank, silent rebuke.

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"It was a totally expressionless, blank stare, " said Larry Whicher, one of the victims, whose brother, Alan, 40, an agent with the U.S. Secret Service.

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