Sentences with phrase «rictuses of»

Then we started to wonder, what else could we do with this hot sauce besides create rictuses of pain?
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.
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.
In several paintings, the artist's jaw appears stripped of flesh, emphasising his teeth like the mocking rictus of a skull.
And you'll be looking over their shoulder, allowing you to relax your mask of indifference into a rictus of worry without him noticing.»

Not exact matches

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.
Elsewhere, Jenkins exhibits his customary harried, vulnerable wit; Liotta, his amphibian stare, rictus cackle, and aura of impending catastrophe.
So, you can imagine you're on the African savannah in the Palaeolithic times running away from a sabre - toothed tiger, your face would go into this kind of rictus grimace, and then the sabre - toothed tiger breaks their leg as they're running after you.
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.
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.
Move on up to the underside of his face, and you find an embroidered gaping mouth, fixed in a grim rictus
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