One such is when she saves Stefánie from being a wallflower at a disco and is rewarded with a moment of simple pleasure: "She was grinning, and not that anxious half-grin she so often had on her face.
And Harvard's "The Anatomy of Disgust" by William Ian Miller reproduces a picture by Michael Sowa of guests at a dinner party watching with anxious disapproval a grinning, snarling dog in the foreground that looks a cross between an English Bulldog and a Pekinese.
Mel is trying hard, but, in her forties, she's still a teen-ager herself, looking for an identity, and Holly Hunter, pinched and anxious, then flashing a happy grin when her mangy lover shows up, does her bravest work in years.
This drawn, anxious manifestation hardly resembles the fleshier, grinning version of him in the society pages, or in the head shot accompanying his column in his magazine, U.S. News & World Report.
She grins broadly and then, suddenly anxious, adds: "I hope it's not disrespectful".
It's hard to connect this worn and anxious man in a blue prison shirt to the beefcake grinning in photographs in the late 1970s.
Abdullah, an anxious minimum-wage coffee-shop employee, is barely surviving but must keep his face in a rictus grin because company policy demands he's always "people perfect".
Wall Street, anxious for any indication of a economic improvement in the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, can muster a grin.
His genial hostility was a grinning rebuke to propriety, his brattiness a breath of fresh air in a prim and anxious culture.
