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:
“There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)