| Angelos mirrored the mirthless look, all signs of warmth abruptly gone from his countenance. |
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| The way his features were set, and especially the mirthless smirk on his face, gave him an almost malignant appearance. |
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| Then, all in a moment, her face darkened with a mirthless glare as though there had been no jocularity to begin with. |
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| She doesn't need to articulate as much, her hooting, strangely mirthless laugh says it for her. |
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| The werewolf bared its fangs in a mirthless grin and made a low growling sound that sounded chillingly like laughter. |
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| He watched, his eyes mirthless as she pulled her saber clear from the slight cover of the light coat she wore. |
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| To the midfielder, the perception of him as a mirthless martinet is a failure to understand the greatest manager this country has produced. |
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| His laughter was spiteful and mirthless, and he took his time, content to let his presence sink in. |
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| I came to realize that it was an unnecessarily mirthless, joyless book and I would like it to be, for one thing, more sensuous, more rounded in a way. |
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| But perhaps my glimpse of her face distorted by mirthless laughter sufficed for my journalist's purpose. |
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| Every day I've been struck by the contrast between an exuberant young population and a mirthless Soviet-era regime. |
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| Mimes and jugglers swarmed among the tables, followed by young comedians with mirthless eyes, living by their wits, like dancing bears and philosophers. |
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| It was a mirthless smile, revealing teeth yellowed by smoke and neglect. |
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| I gave a mirthless laugh at her joke and continued my search. |
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| I objected quickly, but his mirthless chuckle made me stop in my tracks. |
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| Theresa's jaw dropped, her face becoming stale and mirthless. |
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| He presses, a small and mirthless smirk coming to his stoic lips. |
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| Relieved, he stole a glance back that that officer, mirthless and cold. |
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| Speaking quietly with his lawyer in court, his face periodically flexed, in a sudden rictus, a mirthless smile. |
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| He went as far as challenging Fate to a duel, and survived: he kept from the experience eyes as luminous as a tomb and a mirthless smile: none ever knew if he had won. |
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| A black comedy that provokes mirthless laughter with modest means. |
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| A recent declaration by Hamas's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, that the movement has won a great victory draws mirthless smiles. But many faithfully stick to the official version. |
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| His shrill, mirthless cachinnation followed Monica as she headed up-hill. |
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| At this Lena smiled again with that mirthless batrachian grin. |
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