Word: frowned
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...With a frown, he listened. My family, I explained, had built a home here in the neighborhood of Kodialguttu just before I left Mangalore in 1991. This was the first time I had come back, and I wanted to see that house again. I had been searching Kodialguttu for half an hour, but I hadn't found it. In fact, I didn't recognize the neighborhood at all. Our house had been built on a paddy field, and you could see it from a couple of miles around. Instead of that paddy field, I now saw shopping malls, colleges, apartment...
...accusers a chance to alter or coordinate their stories. And there is the question of whether forensics evidence can be obtained that would help the prosecutors prove a charge of premeditated murder. Investigators have asked to exhume the bodies of victims, but families have so far refused. Muslims generally frown on disturbing interred bodies, although some Islamic scholars say exhumation is permissible if it would lead to truth and justice...
...used to frown upon columnists who threw themselves narcissistic going-away parties in prose, but it turns out that the temptation for retrospective justification is irresistible. And so as I depart, I leave you with a pithy summary of my long project in the form of an admonition: Don’t forget the technology. Don’t forget the transformative influence it has right now, and never underestimate the long-term importance of future invention and progress...
...from traditional teenage preoccupations as an 18-year-old could get. She didn't care about clothes, music or parties. She couldn't remember the last time she had to study for a test. And as for boys, she dismissed all the men in Sri Lanka with a fierce frown and sharp shake of the head...
...Like Nixon, Lay's face naturally falls into a frown. On the stand, his brows drew together. His tongue flicked back and forth hitting the corners of his mouth. He tried to win the jury over during direct examination by talking about the three paper routes he had growing up and summers laboring on farms in Missouri. Lay, once a multimillionaire, also testified that he now drives a 13-year-old car and all his savings are gone...