Throughout the movie, he wears the aloof, vaguely contemptuous expression of a man suffering from indigestion.
When Mrs. Warren, lying back in a chair, tells her daughter, "Women have to pretend to feel a great deal that they don't feel," her contented, contemptuous expression is the emblem of a woman in control of her life in a world where hypocrisy reigns.
Contemptuous facial expressions elicited stronger activation in men than in women across a range of brain regions, including the medial frontal gyrus and caudate, left superior temporal gyrus, left inferior frontal gyrus, left superior and inferior parietal lobule, right superior and middle occipital gyrus, and right precuneus.
"What's wrong?" As I fumbled my way out of this, I saw her face curdling into an expression of contemptuous distaste.
Here Erika frequents the private video-viewing booth, where she sniffs the discarded tissues with the same expression of faintly contemptuous connoisseurship that she displays at her pupils' rehearsal.
"In the critical phase, during which he uses the words, Mr Terry can be seen to be smiling initially, before his facial expression changes to disdainful and contemptuous.
Specifically, women showed stronger responses to male contemptuous faces (as compared to female expressions), in the insula and middle frontal gyrus.
What is clear, without analyzing his arithmetic, is that snark is an expression of contempt that is contemptuous not only of its target but of standards of logic, evidence, and decency.
Gray was back then contemptuous of what he saw as yet another expression of apocalyptic thinking, and an example of "the domination of the American mind by the liberal ideology that has fostered blind spots in American perception of the real world that have been immensely disabling for policy".
In the fourth episode, Gilligan pushed Skyler, Walt's wife, into the foreground, granting her strength and insight; in one gorgeous scene, this happened literally, as the camera swung from a closeup of Walt, with Skyler facing away behind him, to a shot of Skyler's expression, which was at once devastated and contemptuous.
Contemptuous faces did not elicit stronger amygdala activation than did disgusted expressions.
