Sentence examples for a stricken expression from inspiring English sources

A stricken expression crossed Payne's face.

Subject is rigid and displays a stricken expression.[11] Overall Affect: Subject appears anxious.

His face wore a stricken expression that she thought she recognized — she had been his confidante through many love troubles.

Only later did she realize that the shot of the girl, in a pose reminiscent of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," in an orange bikini with her stomach sucked in and a stricken expression on her face, had just the unguarded quality she was after.

"I know this is a film about a young girl," he said with a serious bow to her and a stricken expression in his brow.

I gave him a stricken look.

The waitress gave me a stricken look.

She has gone beyond the Good Wife, in part because there was no stricken expression, no bafflement, and a reference to having had, rather than planning to seek, "a lot of therapy".

It was clear from her stricken expression that she had no idea where Moore was.

He returned, empty-handed and aghast, reporting that "there are literally no avocados in the village", his stricken expression neatly encapsulating how mightily things have changed in the E9 postcode and how much hipster boys (and girls) crush on Khan.

Uy had greatly underestimated the task of clawing her way out of hardship; her stricken expression as she talks suggests she also miscalculated the personal costs of selling her daughter's body to try.