The show is all long sighs and pensive lip biting; coy smiles and innuendo.
(Look how he swallows a Scotch to numb the hurt, and then try to imagine the Roger Moore equivalent — the pensive sip, the appreciative smile at the distiller's art).
As we inched through traffic, Blahyi used an iPad to take selfies in various poses: dazzling smile, thoughtful gaze, pensive frown.
Or maybe you want to capture your model's personality - his smile, or his "pensive" look.
He appeared pensive and even critical on some, smiling on others.
One after another, the distinguished White House guests would rush in with faint smiles and leave briskly, looking pensive, anxious.
In last fall's episode, Ms. Wintour is shown in fast-paced clips variously smiling, yawning, scowling or looking pensive, while a diagram on the screen dissects the proportions of her features: 63 percent hair, 20percentt sunglasses, 17percentt face.
The effect is evident throughout his work, as in "To Silvia": Silvia, do you remember still that moment in your mortal life when beauty shimmered in your smiling, startled eyes as, bright and pensive, you arrived at the threshold of youth?
Photo: Karl Schembri/NRC "I like that," he says with his infectious smile, but he quickly adopts a pensive mood.
But even by the late 1800s, when the technology improved to the point that photographers could easily freeze a smile onto film, people still preferred serious, pensive, or even sad poses for their photos.
