Sentence examples for habitual expression from inspiring English sources

Ms. Duffy looked triumphant: her face shone; gone was the faint grimace that had once been her habitual expression.

Maybe they just think 'it's that man again' and ignore the victim's habitual expression of pained disbelief.

Bevilacqua has "saffron-colored fingers" from smoking, and wore "the habitual expression of a slaughtered ram".

(Starkey, who is sixty-two and wears horn-rimmed glasses and a habitual expression of incredulity, is also famously impolitic: his outbursts on the BBC program "The Moral Maze" have earned him the title in the tabloids of the "rudest man in Britain").

A short, gnarled, nervous man, with the habitual expression of a disgruntled troll, Roberts putters around amid his chaotic stock in a grass-green artist's smock and, in defiance of a sign on his wall that reads "ONL Y LOW CONVERSATION PERMITTED" rarely drops his voice below the level of a drill sergeant's.

From the perspective of its nature, an action consists in its verbal and/or habitual expression.

These revealed his obsession with pornography, his racism, his increasing shift to the political right wing, and his habitual expressions of venom and spleen.

"For the moment I'm searching for words," the coach said, wearing his habitual puzzled expression.

After a shout of glee, Heidegger immediately caught himself and resumed his habitual fierce expression.

He usually dresses conventionally, and his habitual public expression is one of mild bemusement, but his features work against this look: his eyes are a rimy blue, his nose is grandiose and fiercely convex, his chin juts sharply forward, and there is a big gap between his two front teeth.

Mark Wahlberg, his face unfortunately set in that habitual slack-mouthed expression of distrust and discontent, is Captain Leo Davidson, a hunky USAF space pilot.