Word: smirking
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...suppose you know," quoth the Ibis with a smirk, "what the Raven said...
...could smudge, hedge, smirk, wriggle, wince...
...hairdo and delicate, almost boyish proportions-an interesting example of an old-fashioned trademark evolving with public taste and changing times. Seldom does one see the White Rock girl in her innocent nudity. No, sir! She's enveloped in drapery, her bosom covered and a self-conscious smirk on her face. The bluenoses have obviously complained, and the company has probably ordered little White Rock to put on her underwear...
...Negro star whose affair with a white actress was a bannered smirk in Confidential last year discovered that the story developed from snapshots of the couple that were filched by an acquaintance. The private files of detectives have been rifled for stories such as Confidential's account of Joe DiMaggio's famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick...
...igth century evolutionary notion that history is a process of perpetual improvement. That era's brilliant, fashionable upper-class leftists-Auden, Ishenvood, Spender et al.-are dismissed by Amis and Co. as playboys on a slumming party. The "new men" have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read:"It was there, at Castle Howard, that I fell in love with Laura Bonham-Carter; and what I best remember about the first breathless evening...