She has consistently set her face against publicising the story.
Given that she had also set her face firmly against the "personal abuse" levelled at her and the Booker's other judges, I thought that was a bit rich.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has been much tougher with Mr Putin than her embarrassingly Russophile predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, but for now she has set her face against sanctions.
When Underwood is photographed, she often sets her face in an intimidating glower: not the smoldering invitation of a lingerie model but the aggressive self-possession of a person whose allure — and athletic success — depends on power.
Cheever sends a medical-intelligence specialist, Erin Mears (Kate Winslet), to the Minneapolis hot zone, and Winslet, working with more edge than Fishburne, hardens her voice, sets her face in a determined mask, and captures the tone and the style of a professional woman exasperated by slowness and ignorance, a woman almost masochistic in her scrupulous sense of duty.
Another woman, her face set, her hair wrapped tightly in a colourful cloth, paced out in front of the enormous crowd, raised her fist, and yelled the freedom cry that black-liberation protesters used to shout when they faced down the apartheid state's tanks: "Amandla!
Depicting an anonymous woman, clad in black with a white collar and cap setting off her face, its estimate is $5.6 million to $8.4 million.
As the set began her face was covered with a white cloth that she sang through; later, when she doffed it, she used a headband to hide her face in her hair.
After programming them, one girl set them face to face.
"If she gets on my nerves," Rajani says of her child, "I will set fire to her face".
She was a pint-sized firecracker of a woman, with short curly hair, big round glasses set wider than her face, and a thin slit of a mouth that she kept well-lined with red lipstick.
