His shapes included long pods with narrow mouths and tall, neckless vases with horizontally stretched mouths marked at the sides with bits of clay that Mr. Heino referred to as birds.
Nunn may be following Shaffer's original instructions in making the Incas appear and sound stylised, but the result is ridiculous: they look as if they've bought a job-lot of wigs and are being forced to speak while having root-canal treatment: every word is flung out of widely stretched mouths, uttered in a sort of all-purpose pidgin.
She donned a padded turquoise blindfold; bared her teeth; stretched her mouth, chanting, "Hah!
Hastreiter turned to Wills and stretched her mouth into a wide, delighted, "Oh my god" expression, followed by a "Ha! Ha!" She spotted a drag queen in a tiara and said that he used to do layouts for Paper.
Despite having to wear a dental prosthesis that stretched his mouth into an unsettling grimace, Mr. Veidt (the murderous somnambulist in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari") delivers a delicately touching performance that nonetheless carries the seed of terror.
Awaiting instructions, she stretched her mouth into various distortions, as though warming up for a vocal exercise, then opened one of the newspapers and began to read aloud, occasionally interrupting herself in the voice of a disgruntled old man.
If you catch yourself with your teeth together or your mouth closed, slowly stretch your mouth open again.
A model of a skull demonstrates how a snake can stretch its mouth wide enough to swallow something bigger than its head.
The works, made of concrete or fiberglass and largely created by Mr. Cassilly, capture energetic poses: a giraffe reaching for a high leaf, a turtle stretching its mouth wide.
Simplified to a yellow skull on a shrouded body curved in an S shape, thin, serpentine hands against the emaciated cheeks and covering its ears, the personification of unhappiness stretches its mouth open in a vertical oval, and screams.
