Those dull, blank eyes

When I told a friend of M. Scott Peck's line about the eyes of "people of the lie" ("...hooded with reptilian torpor....," [People of the Lie (1985), p. 196], he said

that's the classic look of the crocodiles in Africa as they swim toward you. They don't rush, they don't show expression. They just give you a look that says "you mean nothing to me but food and I am coming to eat you and there is nothing you can do about it."

    In workplaces characterized by reptilian disregard for employees among the positionally powerful, the help are advised to get out of the water.