The word 'brow' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as both a noun and a verb. For example, "She raised her brow in confusion".
Thanks to the cameras, it was possible to glimpse all sorts of revealingly human moments: the sweat on the brow of a pallbearer after piloting the coffin up the steps of St Paul's; the sudden, muttered aside of the Queen to the Duke of Edinburgh as the coffin itself passed by; the concentration on the face of a boy-treble as the choir sang the anthem from the Fauré Requiem.
When I do the scene with Desdemona and the handkerchief, I still hear myself doing it for Red Velvet and I'm tempted to strike the legs wide and cover my brow".
So, fellow vertebrates, do we want to continue being brow beaten and dragged down by the jellyfish in the darkest parts of deep water where no sun shines?
The offending article showed Hanson-Young's face Photoshopped on to a woman in a bikini, claiming with an arched brow it would "house the next boatload of asylum seekers in the Zoo office" if the Greens' immigration spokeswoman would agree to a "tasteful" swimsuit or lingerie shoot.
A cloud passes across his flushed brow, briefly.
Sweat beads formed on the education secretary's brow as her finger wobbled along her lines of the script, but she reached the end without too many disasters.
In a high-brow equivalent of cash in the attic, the 92-year-old says he is selling the medal because it is just taking up space in his log cabin.
Did we really devote all that brow-furrowing critical attention to Argo (best picture, 2012), an engaging but supremely middleweight true-life dramedy about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis?
The great-painter biopic can be an inert subgenre: many film-makers assume that merely showing artistry, with furious brow-furrowing and brush-stabbing, amounts to sharing it.
Not that it will sell, because these days there is only room for the middle-brow ennui of Hollinghurst and Byatt.
This is a recurring device in Denis's films and one which, when overused, can frustrate the viewer and it is probably why, despite her star-studded cast, Denis has yet to cross over into the middle-brow middle ground occupied by most ordinary French cinema-goers.
