Sentence examples for anguished expression from inspiring English sources

The picture in the show showed her lying in bed in a Paris hotel, with the painter standing, gazing down with detachment at her anguished expression.

She would hear the creaking and cracking of different joints, she would see his familiar anguished expression and she would watch her husband move toward his first sip of coffee as if his legs were shackled.

But other people in the audience, knowing what is coming next, the concluding Adagio lamentoso movement, an anguished expression of inner pain and emotional collapse, often glower at those enthusiastic audience members who disrupt the mood with cheers and applause.

Peering intently at us, an anguished expression on her face, she barks out streams of words that are vaguely connected, leaving long pauses in between for us to ponder their significance.

Parker was, for all his startling innovations, a great blues player, as can be heard not only in his constant reference to earlier blues traditions but also in the depth and beauty of his tone and its often anguished expression.

On Thursday, as the case opened in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Ms. Dallas and her son testified that they had heard the same anguished expression of disbelief over and over again from Mr. Mineo: that an officer had "shoved a walkie-talkie" between his buttocks.

If you could have seen the anguished expressions on the faces of those in our department upon seeing those photos, you would know how we feel today.

Ever since "Meltdown Monday", photographs of her anguished expressions have been splashed almost daily across the pages of newspapers around the globe.

In "Warner Variations," a group piece to a commissioned score by Jan Warner, dancers in form-fitting black pants (and bras for the women) sweep on and off with half-jazzy, half-ballet swirly movements, occasionally sporting anguished expressions.

What should be remembered as well is that Laclos's characters, especially Merteuil, may be writers but they are also actors in their own drama: they inhabit roles, they are drawn to game-playing and disguise, and their most affecting letters are more like dramatic monologues, anguished expressions of interiority.

He shakes his head, a slightly anguished look on his face.