A blank expression, also known as poker face is a facial expression characterized by the neutral position of facial features and implies a lack of strong emotion. It may be caused by a lack of emotion, boredom, slight confusion (such as when someone refers to something which the listener does not understand) a deliberate attempt to disguise one's emotions, such as when playing poker giving rise to popular term, poker-faced, or a sign of depression. It is also the expression most common while asleep.
Early usage of the term, poker face, outside the game of poker, was seen in 1920s by American sportswriters, describe player appearing unaffected during stressful games. It used is often by Mental health professionals with their patients and by marketeers and salespeople during business negotiations.
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Famous quotes containing the words blank and/or expression:
“If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: “Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!” you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.”
—Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)