21.   A blank stare.

22.   A cellphone that used Morse code messaging, for example, drew blank stares from teen-agers.

23.   A distinguished contemporary sets the purity of his language against an essentially godless, Wallace Stevensish universe that returns our examination with a blank stare.

24.   A few local retailers acquired blank stares when asked about rollers and lawn striping.

25.   Afterward, it was all blank stares and profanity.

26.   Again there was the blank stare and, for the most part, silence on the part of the suspect.

27.   But ask young people how the system will change, and the answer is a blank stare.

28.   But other than that, I think you will get a lot of blank stares.

29.   Elvis looked up at me with a blank stare.

30.   Even among many Washington political sophisticates, the annointment of Hastert drew blank stares.