Tall, squinty-eyed, baldish, with a nimbus of gray and a U-shape smile more satanic than cherubic, Mr. Koch told a story like a raconteur in a deli, kvetching and ah-hahing with the timing of a Catskill comic.
By turning rates of bunting, stealing and pinch-hitting into hair sizes, nose shapes and smile widths, Dr. Wang used a kind of statistical Mr. Potato Head to portray the spectrum of managerial characteristics in a way that intrigued even the skippers themselves.
A gaze that was difficult to understand: it seemed to him to express an inexplicable mix of compassion and contempt; the mother's lips had taken the shape of a smile (a smile of compassion and contempt together); then, without rising from the chair, she leaned toward him and, with her index finger, touched his navel.
The question was the sort that raises art critics above the status of the average human being, who might simply have looked at the shapes and smiled tightly.
Ali laid on the floor, a mound of muscle and fiber, soon shouting out comments on the colors or sounds or shapes or smiles on the screen.
If you hold a pencil between your teeth, forcing your mouth into the shape of a smile, you'll find a cartoon funnier than if you hold the pencil pointing forward, by pursing your lips round it in a frown-inducing way.
For example, people with mouths that have a natural smile shape are seen as far more approachable, while larger eyes are the strongest factor in attractiveness.
Draw a series of dots in a smile shape for the snowman's smile.
Use a box cutter, scissors or a knife to cut a curve into a smile shape.
Cut a small smile shape from the felt and glue on the face.
