He looked her up and down, his mouth tense.
Rising out of the water, his face was tense and his mouth hung open.
My eyes would express affection while my mouth was tense.
The mouth is tense, the eyes haunting, the face gaunt.
But Griffey, who talked so softly that a club official asked him to move the microphone closer to his mouth, was tense.
If the mouth appears tense and the lips are pursed, this can indicate distress.
Sure, it will smell exquisite as the aromatic molecules evaporate, but once a morsel hits your mouth, everything tenses up.
In the end her symptoms, and the numbers, said it all, so she went back to intensive care, still gasping for air, her mouth open and tense under the mask.
Music critic Jim Farber commented that D'Angelo's torso "sways in grinding rhythm, tensing and releasing as his mouth curls in pleasure and his eyebrows narrow to measure an ecstatic contraction", while claiming that the video has "nothing but close-ups of D'Angelo's buff body on the apparent receiving end of one of life's great payoffs".
I smile for as long as I can, forcing the edges of my mouth upwards through the tensing muscles that want to make all things on my face furrow and frown.
