This effectively makes him not just the subject of our attention but also a kind of mirror: we largely perceive the game through his expressions (his unmoving face, beaky nose and hooded eyes give him the aspect of a hawk) and his far more animated movements.
At the Colony.It is bad enough when a writer persists in reading his stories to his friends, but think how much more wearying it is to have to watch a motion picture player, off stage, carefully going through his expressions and motions in every scene of a film; and then when that is finished starting on his current vehicle.
Nonetheless, I grasp through his expressions that we are on the same page regarding our concerns for the coming days, but he is a public figure and I am not.
At the all-important family reunion, Richard steps forward to grab his estranged father by the arm, "his expression leafing through a dozen readable emotions before landing somewhere between apology and forgiveness".
The definitive survey spanned seven decades from his early explorations through his breakthrough expression at midcentury to the late lyricism of his final works in the late 1980s and confirmed de Kooning's undisputed position as a modern master.
He seemed severe on my first day I gave him a friendly smile and he looked back as if I'd tried to punch him in the throat but in conversation it turned out that a raucous laugh frequently breaks through his stoic expression.
He seemed severe – on my first day I gave him a friendly smile and he looked back as if I'd tried to punch him in the throat – but in conversation it turned out that a raucous laugh frequently breaks through his stoic expression.
We apprehend the patient's consciousness, his inner world (or first-person perspective), through and in his expressions and communications ([ 32], p. 20).
Michelangelo, more intense and deeply religious than the scientifically minded Leonardo, sought to channel his expression through the human figure alone.
Together they form a contemporary triptych: The literary interpreter, the historiographer, and at the center, the artist eagerly trying to steer his expression through aphasia's grudging locks.
He's a craggy old man who looks like if Ron Perlman had been through a chemical attack; his expression is unreadable, but it seems to say, Fuck this.
