Word: smirking
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...sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense, as they might meet their tutor, say, or President Pusey...
...lecture (subject: "The Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks-I'll have coffee...
...film begins, Father announces that the children are going to live with him. They flatly refuse. Nervously but firmly, he insists on his rights. "What can we do?" one of the little darlings snarls. "He's got the law on his side." Another muses with a sinister smirk: "He ain't gonna like it." And so the story swiftly develops into yet another clumsy, commercial switch on what is probably the most popular comedy situation in contemporary U.S. humor: the problems of bringing up father...
...caffeinized contingents of the anguished and the unwashed can make a bee-line for Emerson Hall. Visiting Professor Earle will try to fill huge vacuum in Harvard's Philosophy department by discussing the heresies of European existentialism in Room F. Orthodox analysts down the hall in Emerson A will smirk smugly at 138a's talk of being and angst while they doodle rigorously with 140's metamathematical p's and q's. The literati, both serious and dilantante, will feel all the agonies of existentialist Choice themselves in deciding between Harbage's survey of Shakespeare in Room 18, 2 Divinity...
Perhaps reading too far, Torrilhon detects myxedema (underactive thyroid) in the swollen eyelids, sparse lashes, dry hair and "shivering, apathetic aspect" of the bride in the renowned canvas, The Peasant Wedding. (Critic Gilbert Highet saw the bride as "a healthy, blowsy heifer," whose smirk and downcast eyes hide unseemly thoughts: "I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband, but he is rich.") In the five sightless beggars stumbling into a ditch in the famous Parable of the Blind, Torrilhon sees a whole ophthalmological catalogue. From left to right, he diagnoses pronounced...