Word: leering
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...mouth is a joke, a leer, a sewer, Her teeth lacerate her tongue when she speaks...
...ground of obscenity. Last year his first novel, Easter Sun, got a good hand from critics. By last week Author Neagoe was better known in the U. S. than most of his Rumanian compatriots. Earthy but not obscure, Peter Neagoe writes of barnyard happenings but not with the leer of the city-dweller. A Transylvanian Sylvanus, he tells with country gusto the chronicles of his sly, lustful, saintly and simple fellow-peasants...
...Richest Girl in the World," contains Miriam Hopkins for whom we have always kept a sneaking admiration. This time she finds herself in another pleasant but ineffectual story where mistaken identity brings her suitably to the brink--but just to the brink--of emotional disaster. Nevertheless, that subtle leer in Miss Hopkins voice is still a better bid for seduction than the weapons of most of her contemporaries...
...been the post of my scourging. It has been my throne. It has been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence, by a gesture, by a bow, by a leer, by a leap, by a skip, by the howl of a wolf, by the scream of a woman in travail, certain inspirations concerning the secrets of life that, without any vain boasting, I do not think have been expressed very often in this world...
...tell the sequel to these optimistic whiffings:--his zealous disposal of the Vanities, his airing and dusting, his meticulous dressing in his most summery suitings; and his light-hearted setting forth into the world. All to no end! For April soon twitched her sunny smile into a frozen leer, and the Vagabond ran home to his celibate cubicle cringing from the cold and mumbling imprecations...