The timing of the invitations lifted eyebrows.
I did miss the more Japanese communication style of traditional sushi bars, where an entire meal can be conducted with nods, smiles and lifted eyebrows.
She'd said, "I'm really sorry to bother you — " while he stared at her with lifted eyebrows and a tight mouth.
Writing about another massacre that lifted eyebrows in the West — a government-tolerated pogrom against Jews in 1903 in the Russian city of Kishinev — he said Satan himself could not devise a revenge appropriate for those who deliberately slaughter infants.
If there was a stat column for lifted eyebrows, Luke Beveridge's Bulldogs side would be racking up the stats this season and no time more so than their eight-goal opening-quarter splurge against GWS last weekend.
This overly zealous cosmetic procedure lifts eyebrows to the hairline, causing a look that ranges from perpetual surprise to outright shock.
A line thrown away, a lifted eyebrow, a smile or a sharp, resounding slap on a tender part of the anatomy is as natural as breathing to them.
All of which may have barely merited a lifted eyebrow in the Chelsea Hotel of two decades ago, when the hotel's grit and bohemian soul mirrored the spirit, and perils, of downtown Manhattan.
He was not too sure of himself & students would ask questions to which he himself didn't know the answer, and he would see the exchange of glances, a lifted eyebrow, an ill-concealed smirk.
Most of our communication, however, was carried on by a lifted eyebrow followed by a nod or shake of the head.
