Sentence examples for an expression of anguish from inspiring English sources

His eyes are open, his brow furrowed and his lower teeth bared in an expression of anguish.

For example, prayer to God by parents for the recovery of a child's health may be understood as an expression of their anguish and an effort to center their hope on the child's getting better, and not as an attempt to persuade God to violate the laws of nature by miraculously healing their child.

The recordings played until the babies showed a "cry face," the infant expression of anguish that includes lowered brows, lip corners pulled to the side, mouth opening and raised cheeks.

"Far from being anti-Catholic, my column was an expression of one Catholic's anger and anguish about the moral crisis in her church," Dowd told me.

But it became clear, once he began talking, animatedly, with extravagant hand gestures and giggles of delight, that the apparent anguish was merely an expression of deep thought, a counterpoint to his ebullience in answering.

She had an expression of peace and of trouble -- fatigue or anguish, I don't know.

But the alters are also an expression of Tara's deepest, and still not understood, anguish.

A look of anguish sweeps his broad face, like a cloud-shadow crossing the savannah.

A look of anguish washed over his face.

But behind her shy laugh was a look of anguish and lingering shock.

Meeting against the backdrop of 2,400 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, the gruesome discovery of 70 decomposing migrant bodies in a lorry on an Austrian motorway, and human suffering on an epic scale across the EU's borders, the summit produced expressions of anguish, a tiny dollop of humanitarian aid, and commitments to strengthened border controls.