At the sight of her, however, his expression cracked open into such spontaneous, friendly pleasure that it was like a flare against the underground light.
Martinez rounded the bases with a serious expression cracked only by the slightest smile: the old face of the Yankees, and on this day, a new face for the Yankees.
Are we the only ones who can't look at this guy's cartoony hangdog expression without cracking up?
He came to prominence in the 1978-79 Democracy Wall movement during which Deng Xiaoping, freshly risen to power, tolerated (and indeed profited from) a modicum of free expression before cracking down on it.
The 1957 precedent is particularly relevant because Deng responded to criticism in the late 1970s much as Mao Zedong had some twenty years earlier, first welcoming it as a healthy form of expression, then cracking down.
Vaguely defined and arbitrarily applied, it's something of a Swiss army knife in the government's formidable tool-belt of repression, a law that has been repeatedly used to stifle freedom of expression and crack down on dissent, ultimately fomenting the (increasingly rickety) culture of compliant, docile self-censorship that has permeated the nation's political life.
Based on the stress field expressions, crack tip stress intensity factors, dislocation dipole image forces and image torque are formulated.
A completely new and robust finite element mesh generator which is validated using the full scale experimental test results is used for the parametric study to propose the new FAR expressions for cracked SHS K-joints.
We were allowed to drink water from a straw, but not allowed to make any facial expression for fear of our face [paint] cracking.
With her arms swaying above her head, she made the mean-mug expression that always cracked her friends up, then broke into a radiant smile.
