Having spent over thirty years in courtrooms trying cases, I can tell you the expression described in this article is the last thing you want. What you do want, and what the best trial attorneys have, is a pleasant face, almost avuncular, so that everything you say seems to come forth with a tone as clear, pleasant, and untroubled as a summer sky of the deepest azure. Who would not be inclined to believe anything one said, if presented like that.
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I agree. Let me tell you a little secret. Some years back I ran a little sideshow containing oddities and such. I was able to spin a yarn so wide and vast convincingly that I could get folks to believe that a stick in a box was indeed a 105 python from the forests of Borneo. That, that mermaid there was truly caught off the Turks and Cacaos and until recently, resided on the mantle of a bar. Blah, blah, blah.
Facial expressions, tone of voice and speaking with authority do go far.