Seven of them, mostly portraits done from 1908 through 1914, are quite tame, except for a striking disembodied head of the artist, with a tense expression and a very full crown of hair.
He shook Tony's hand with a polite, tense expression, then said, "Will!" Will Arnett was passing by.
Painted not with the artist's typical technique, but in a mannerist style, the subject faces the viewer yet is glancing away, her pose tense, expression unreadable, with a bunch of discarded flowers on the ground next to the hem of her enormous formal dress.
I look around at the wide-eyes of my fellow captives and the tense expressions of my captors before their faces soften into smiles, nervous laughter ripples the air and relieved chatter breaks the silence.
I prefer to think they are the tense expressions of a people ready to rise up and bolt at a moment's notice — though perhaps we can take heart that the volcano has not spewed significant ash for at least a few weeks now.
Some other domains exhibiting such differences between lexical and morphological strategies include tense, aspect, evidentiality, negation, plurality, and expressions of possibility.
The audience peers down at her, sympathetically observing her thought process, made palpable by the room's warm lighting, as well as Streep's tense facial expressions and jittery hand gestures.
Likewise, there is considerable debate over the original marking devices for these categories and for the expressions of aspect, tense, and mood.
These include logics for belief, for tense and other temporal expressions, for the deontic (moral) expressions such as 'it is obligatory that' and 'it is permitted that', and many others.
Does your expression look tense, scared, or angry?
He cited an image of a man with his legs cut off above the knees, stumps dripping blood, muscles tensed, and an agonized expression.
