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.
This tight, "tense" expression gives the impression of visceral, nearly uncontrollable anger.
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.
It frequently involves extensive marking for conjugational features such as person, number, tense (the expression of time), aspect, or voice, with consonant mutation often accompanying such morphological processes.
This balding, fiercely mustached writer and coffeehouse habitué reveals angst in his tense facial expression and hands held apart as if struggling to outline a large idea.
Does your expression look tense, scared, or angry?
