Word: scowlingly
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...that appear to account for the entire panoply of human facial expressions. The movements--or action units, as Ekman called them--range from the slight crow's-feet crinkling around the eyes that accompanies a smile to the contraction of forehead muscles that are an integral part of a scowl. "Some of these movements are so difficult that they're impossible to fake unless you're a very skilled actor," says Marian Bartlett, a post-doctoral fellow in Sejnowski...
...help catch these actors, Bartlett scanned pictures of faces into the computer and wrote instructions that taught the machine to recognize six of Ekman's coded movements: the fleeting grimace or scowl, for example, that may precede a liar's counterfeit smile. When the computer was later presented with other, unfamiliar pictures and videotapes, it showed a remarkable ability to apply what it had learned, detecting similar flickers in the new pictures and even outperforming human volunteers who competed with the machine to spot the same telltale twitches...
...Prime Minister very rarely grins. He is better known for a brooding scowl and outbursts of temper. But on March 6 he was ebullient as he presided over his daughter's wedding. His smile was broadcast over a huge video screen to 5,000 guests at tables spread around his house in the Tiger's Den. Hun Sen was doubly happy, he said in his speech, not only because of his daughter's marriage but also because that very day his troops had arrested Ta Mok, the Khmer Rouge leader also known as "the Butcher," the last of the rebel...
...fractious nostalgia trip to make a few quid and see if the flame still burns. This retro comedy, cannily written by The Commitments' Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, gives such fine British actors as Bill Nighy, Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail and Bruce Robinson the chance to strut, scowl, sing some jaunty tunes (by '70s survivors Mick Jones, Steve Dagger and Jeff Lynne) and define what it means to be mates in a middle age the rockers never thought they'd live to see. Some of the laughs are too easy, but there are lots of them...
They have gangsta lyrics, they scowl under dreads, and they make cryptic yet suspect handsigns. I was afraid of them from the start. And then when I tremulously put them in my ear, it was an injection of liquid electricity that made me twitch and jolt through the album. They are good...