Sentences with phrase «expression of pinched»

If Roxanne, with her perpetual expression of pinched distaste, registers at times like a too - easy replay of the bulimic daughter in Life Is Sweet, at least Leigh is thoughtful enough to provide her with a boyfriend and an uncle who persuade her to grow beyond her mother's fatalistic projections and self - image.

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Now a fate and a world not of the filly's making was closing in around her — the horse ambulance waiting there to take her away, the pinched expressions of the groom and the pony girl, and the track veterinarian moving toward her with his needles.

Boasting a canine cast of exquisitely neurotic dachshunds — all of them bearing the same pinched expression as Jane Adams in Solondz's Happiness — Wiener - Dog follows the trajectory of one dog traipsing into a series of domestic traps only this filmmaker could devise.