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She literally hasn't the energy to grow (tall) and wise: "Quiero aprender a leer , pero no puedo," she says.
In Nana, crowds leer as the heroine appears in an operetta; they cheer with a sexual excitement at the racecourse; and then finally take to the streets, heady with excitement at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war.
Jamie and his mate Christian coo and leer over the perfect burger, pointing out its curves and extremities, like two lads weighing up the dancefloor at Pulse Nitespot in Garstang.
Under Elspeth Wilkes's musical direction, Becca Marriott (Tosca), Edward Hughes (Cavaradossi), James Harrison (Scarpia) and Miles Horner (everyone else) sob, snog, leer and roar their hearts out to pungent effect.
These headlines sit uneasily next to stories inviting readers to leer at former child stars in bikinis who are, the second they hit 16, apparently "all grown up".
We throw the word 'rape' around when someone hijacks our Facebook page and writes a funny status; we leer at – or verbally attack – women who express romantic love for one another in the street; we defend breasts in newspapers as if they belong to the men who masturbate over them.
He shows me early sketches for it, which reveal a boggled-eyed hunched troll with a plainly murderous leer on its hideous face.
They seemed to be inviting men to leer , and many obliged.
Judging by the title and the poster, you might assume it was a laddish horror-comedy about two mates (Gavin and Stacey's James Corden and Mathew Horne) who guzzle lots of beer, splutter lots of rude words, and leer at lots of underdressed young women, most of whom are Sapphic blood-suckers – and that's precisely what it is.
Before play proper begins, this light bathes Lenny (excellent John Simm) who poses with a knowing leer by a door so central and ghostly-looking it could be a little pocket of Gothic in this North London butcher's house.
Old-timers such as Cabaret, revamped with Jane Horrocks in the Minelli role, and Oliver! for which he persuaded an uneasy Jonathan Pryce to adopt the Fagin leer , got dangerous, sexy and must-see status under Mendes.
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The word "leer" primarily functions as a verb to describe a specific manner of looking, often sideways or obliquely, and typically with malicious or sexual intent. It can also function as a noun , referring to the look itself. Ludwig provides examples of its usage in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
