Word: scowlingly
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Ralph Fiennes, head nearly shaved, thin frame draped in mud-brown haberdashery, stands in an implied graveyard and works his mouth into a sour scowl as he says he doesn't mind the smell of corpses. "A trifle on the sweet side perhaps, a trifle heady, but how infinitely preferable to what the living emit, their feet, teeth, armpits, arses, sticky foreskins and frustrated ovules." Fiennes enumerates these body parts with slow precision, and in a tone of crescendoing disgust. It might be a litany of curses, a bill of criminal charges brought against a species about to be condemned...
...looking a bit off,” says Powers, “If I overthink the meanings of the paintings then the paintings aren’t any good.” He likes to paint alone, and when painting outside tends to “wear headphones and scowl at anyone who comes within a hundred feet,” so as to avoid discussions with onlookers about unfinished pieces. Of his audience, Powers says “You want to hit them over the head. You want to give them something they wouldn’t necessarily expect...
...former New York Governor George Pataki in New York's Grand Central Station Monday afternoon - a press conference at which McCain took just three questions - Mark Salter, the candidate's close adviser and speechwriter, shook his head. "We're not used to being this big," he said with a scowl as he looked at his watch. "We've been late all day. We're never late...
...audience needed a rooting interest, and because Clint was so damn cool, he established the new mode: hero by default. The good guy was the one with the fastest gun, the meanest scowl and top billing. And that perpetual three-day beard that Toshiro Mifune had worn in the same role in Yojimbo; in Hollywood Westerns, the hero's visage was typically hairless, while villains sported a dastardly mustache. Eastwood's scruff became a fashion statement that lives today on the carefully unshaven faces of pop stars and young actors. And his surliness, transposed to the Dirty Harry Callahan character...
...Every day about 70 to 100 mothers come in here," says Carina Peters, 37, owner of the children's second-hand clothing store Neufundland-Berlin.de. Two boys are playing in the corner, throwing plastic animals around the room. I scowl in their direction as a shark whizzes past...