Sentences with word «rictus»

Then we started to wonder, what else could we do with this hot sauce besides create rictuses of pain?

The first version of many versions of the Gaston Leroux novel is still considered the definitive, thanks to Chaney's committed performance (right down to enduring painful make - up that he himself designed to give him a death's head look and a horrifying rictus grin) and magnificent sets for the grand Paris Opera and the underground labyrinth of tunnels and canals and secret rooms.

The character's ostensibly affectionate smiles toward his family come off as rictuses on his face, as if Willis were attempting to disprove the notion that it takes more muscles to frown.

His professionally underwhelmed parents, played by Steven Wright and Jennifer Coolidge, worry that his propensity for feelings will get him into trouble, and they're right: when Alex clicks on him, the scanner registers Gene making a weird nonsense face, which infuriates the perpetually - cheery Smiler (Maya Rudolph), whose face bears a constant grinning rictus even when she's calling for «malfunction» Gene to be deleted.

Back to the mirrored room, and now the poor young lady's face was stretching into unnatural shapes, a toothy rictus letting forth a guttural howl.

It's immensely entertaining in bits — usually when Christoph Waltz is on screen reprising his casuistical killer with the oh - so - reasonable rictus from Inglorious Basterds.

Elsewhere, Jenkins exhibits his customary harried, vulnerable wit; Liotta, his amphibian stare, rictus cackle, and aura of impending catastrophe.

Waltz with his familiar creepy rictus and doubtful morality may as well have sent his hologram to the set.

His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell.

But it's the Rama show that will open the eyes of the uninitiated with its thin - skinned compositions of lolloping tongues, lopped - off penises, and lipstick rictus grins.

In several paintings, the artist's jaw appears stripped of flesh, emphasising his teeth like the mocking rictus of a skull.

Move on up to the underside of his face, and you find an embroidered gaping mouth, fixed in a grim rictus.»

Gordon Brown tried an online video during the expenses scandal: his unfortunate «rictus grin» became an instant laughing stock.

If my grandfather knew his party would someday be led by some rictus - grinning smarmbucket whose only political ambition was to spend his summer holidays with Cliff Richard, he'd be vomiting in his grave.

It was 40 minutes before David got in a mention about his wife's pregnancy, but it was 9.17 pm before he finally showed emotion and Gordon displayed the rictus grin.

By pouring plaster into these holes and then removing the surrounding ash, the archaeologists were left with exquisitely detailed facsimiles of Pompeians, in some cases showing the type of fabric worn by the victims and even faces contorted eerily in the rictus of death.

She desperately smiles, rictus - like, through her tears and the result is devastating.

There's Skarsgard, smiling a rictus smile that asks, «Has my manhood shriveled?»

Face twisted into a rictus, barely able to speak or move, he treats Ted as the prodigal son he'd rather not see returned.

Often, Cody dreams of the dead son, Sean (Antonio Romero), the little boy's face unnervingly frozen in the rictus of the only photo of him he's seen.

Motormouth talking heads like Dr. Drew Prescott, Gregory Orr (Warner's grandson), and Mark Evan Schwartz chime in on Camelot's production history, bookended by generous archival photos, many involving Warner's tanned death - rictus.

Thing is, those who take so plentifully must also give back, meaning pasting on their rictus grins and applauding when Florence herself takes to the stage to caterwaul.

Fist clenched, thumb erect, Shrigley's gigantic bronze thumb's - up will show not only that London is open for business, but that we've fixed a chirpy, cheeky stoic's death - rictus grin to our faces.

Frank O'Hara, poet and curator at the Museum of Modern Art, shows his discoloured teeth in a rictus of nervous laughter.

Laure Prouvost was clearly not expecting to win the Turner Prize, judging by the rictus of shock on her face.

Within this gridded studio set, the contestants rehearse a kind of folksy normality for the camera, which amounts to a weird litany of grimaces and rictus grins.

And you'll be looking over their shoulder, allowing you to relax your mask of indifference into a rictus of worry without him noticing.»

The current lawyer - owned law firm business model, with its rictus fixation on annual partner profit, produces unpleasant and undesirable lawyer behaviour all on its own.