However, on television, a blank or flat expression does not look blank.

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It takes a blank look and actually makes it look like a frown, and it takes a smile and makes it appear neutral.

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His wife, Zoe, then told the inquest she saw Bird carrying the rifle with a "blank look" on his face and was "unnerved".

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Whether that's what the 24-year-old star was aiming for is hard to say, but he sleepwalks through this tearjerker with a blank look and delivers his (admittedly awful) lines with numb detachment.

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Most people have a blank, expressionless look on their face when listening to someone else talking.

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"We see leather as the blank canvas and look at ways we can give it some texture, " said McDonald.

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Right now the site of the web chat service, run by Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old student in Moscow, is not much to look at: a mostly blank web page with a video chat window in the center.

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"They would go do math for a couple of days and come back with an answer, "LeVey says--to how the grooved dies should look, how much pressure should be applied to the blank, and what the diameter of the blank should be.

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Celtic continued to look more potent in the second half and in the 50th minute Combe pulled off a great point-blank save from the head of Vennegoor of Hesselink after Maloney had floated in a tantalising cross, defender Simon Ford completing the clearance by knocking the bouncing ball away from the line.

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