In a photograph of the moment, Putin can be seen cracking a slight smile while Obama presents a decidedly stern visage.
The plot, if that is the word for it, kicks off in ancient Egypt — home to En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), an immortal potentate of stern visage, whose moisturizing regimen, if you take a peep at the visage, is frankly going nowhere.
I looked up through the smoke and saw a poster of the stern visage of Khomeini above the words, "Islam is the religion of freedom".
With crew-cut blond hair and the stern visage of a drill sergeant, Kranz certainly looked the part.
TEHRAN — Back before the election and the ensuing pandemonium, some journalists stopped for lunch at a cafe in north-central Tehran, a place with pictures of Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett where the stern visage of the late Ayatollah Khomeini is more customary, and where the background music was American jazz.
Cedergren has given Asger a stern, rigid visage, presenting him physically as well as verbally as an uncompromising moralist with a sense of mission, someone who has no doubt he knows right from wrong.
An image of Allen Ginsberg at a pro-pot demonstration is juxtaposed against the stern visage of William Bennett.
With the stern visage of Leon Trotsky glaring from a huge screen behind the lectern, Dr. Joseph Lykken, a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., launched into his best parody of a coffeehouse radical railing against the counterrevolutionary tendencies of the old guard.
Invited to watch as the guest of another firebrand, Steve Stockman, a Republican representative from Texas, his crossed arms and stern visage seemed to capture the conflict still lurking within the Republican Party as its leaders look to expand their appeal.
Until as late as 2015 in some instances, Lenin's stern visage surveyed many village squares and city centers, serving as a literal pillar of ideology.
