Sentence examples for mocking eyes from inspiring English sources

But where "House of Games" evoked a fun-house, eyes-wide-open vision of the world as seen through the mocking eyes of a thief, "Nine Queens" has no aspirations toward creating a surreal through-the-looking-glass universe.

"Wow!" Mandy says, with big mocking eyes.

"Bastard Out of Carolina," Dorothy Allison's début novel, first published twenty-five yeago ago, begins with sneers and mocking eyes.

With its mocking eyes and air of tightly coiled, evangelical malice, the result looks more like a depiction of a devil than a sober investigative tool.

As if determined to defy that mocking eye in the sky Newcastle swiftly scored a second.

Her mocking eye shrivels everything into caricature and denies her creations a necessary mystery and sense of expansiveness.

Crafting stories rather than uncovering scoops, he seeks, with a gently mocking eye, to identify the deeper forces behind outlandish economic behaviour.

Japanese, Germans, Koreans, British and even some Americans are now regular features in Harlem's Sunday landscape and cast a curious, slightly nervous, eye over the drunks who cast an ambivalent, slightly mocking, eye back.

1. Criticism -- are you blaming or attacking your partner? 2. Defensiveness -- are you closed off to feedback from your partner? 3. Contempt -- are you rolling your eyes, mocking or pushing your partner away? 4. Stonewalling -- are you shut down in your interactions with your partner?

With his glittering eyes and mocking smirk, dropping cynical aphorisms about Soviet versus capitalist Russia, Grinko is a fascinatingly ambiguous figure, simultaneously wise and corrupt, good and evil, with scary psychological radar.

She turns out to be lying about both her name and her nationality, but by the time Ricardo discovers this he has already fallen under the spell of her "mischievous laugh" and the "mocking glance of her eyes the colour of dark honey".