With his tight, unsmiling mouth and severe parson's beard, Stanton is an authoritarian bogeyman — a mean Republican! — designed to scare modern liberals.
One anti-genetically-modified-food poster in France shows a man with his eyes shut tight, his mouth pursed, a gun pressed to his temple.
Suddenly, you weren't bound by the rigid forms of the 1950's -- the penciled brow, the tight red mouth, the hair in a permanent fix of glamour.
With her tight little mouth and her eyes turned down in disapproval, she captures the social climber's disdain for the working class, which Haynes, a Los Angeles native, also understands very well.
In the panels depicting sex acts, the women tend to look lovely, while Mr. Brown — with his tight, unsmiling mouth; bald head; and long, thin body — resembles a praying mantis with testicles.
His face, with obsidian eyes that take in everything but reflect nothing, and a tight little mouth, is an impenetrable mask of either innocence or cunning; you're never sure which.
Actually, since my Auckland childhood, I've been of that mind; jolly red suit aside, Santa's sinister mechanical wink, tight mirthless mouth and beckoning come-hither finger (which has cracked, and bears a large bandage) make him look like an old man children should avoid.
