Word: smirking
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...defendant took [such a] severe beating...there would be more physical injury to show for it than a smirk and a welt on your forehead...
...sold out twice in Boston—it must be because we’re so popular,” Jeff Tweedy said towards the end of the set, the sarcasm dripping off his scraggly beard. With one last smirk, he managed to capture the enigmatic essence of Wilco...
...Here’s an example: The middle-aged assistant in the business class lounge at the Cairo airport (I arrived there through a travel agent fluke, a story for another day) showed me the various lounge rooms with a mischievous smirk: “This is the English lounge: it’s cold and dark, like the English! This is the American lounge: it’s big and bright, like Americans! This is the French lounge: there is no service here!” Though it’s illegal—you will find no books...
...camera, John Berger once famously said, is a man looking at a woman. Movie romance is certainly a snapshot of a beautiful woman suffering. The main function of Chow?played by Leung as a sensitive gigolo whose smirk can mature into a sigh?is to direct our glance to all the fabulous women in the cast. The camera, mainly manned by Christopher Doyle, prowls around the women like a lover in the first flush of passion. It captures and caresses the actresses' radiance: Lau's bold sensuality, Faye Wong's elfin resiliency, Gong Li's fragile hauteur. Zhang...
...have to sympathize with Rice for the badgering she underwent in her appearance before the 9/11 commission. During his questioning, commission member Richard Ben-Veniste simply was not prepared to give her room to answer. He appeared to be playing to the audience and the cameras. I hated the smirk on his face when the crowd unashamedly applauded his manners (or lack of them). Sajan H. Malik Karachi...