According to Vural et al. [40], the ten facial actions that are most predictive of sleepiness are increased blink/eye closure, elevated outer brow raise, increased frown, chin raise, more nose wrinkle, less smiling, tightened eye lid, less compressed nostrils, less lowering of eye brows and less jaw drop.
Ms. Deneuve registers Helene's panic and frustration in minute but telling changes of expression and vocal tone: a mouth that almost imperceptibly tightens, eyes that brim with squeezed-back tears and a voice that involuntarily clenches.
During the surgery, the patient's eyelid would be restored to a normal state by tightening the eye tendon.
The skin was tightened at his eyes so that his eyes would sometimes suggest those of an animal picked up by the scruff of the neck".
And when Barbara's self-control collapses, Dench's facial muscles tighten, her eyes dance, her stolid carriage tilts upward in a rage.
Those eyes tightened further to look like knife edges just as the guests were starting to sing Christmas carols round the piano.
Trump, the former host of The Apprentice, narrowed his eyes, tightened his mouth and stared at the camera, as if trying to plant in the audience's mind the familiar phrase: "You're fired".
Look, there it is again in Michael Clayton – fractionally less charming this time, a tad less comedic, but essentially the same facial arrangement: eyebrows slightly raised; eyes tightened just a little; lips pursed with the merest ripple of movement suggesting that things could go either way.
To persuade their victims to hand over all they owned, pirates made regular use of every form of torture, including the rack and woolding, in which a knotted cord was wrapped around a man's head and tightened until his eyes popped out.
And as a reporter noted the numerous challenges confronting Silva with Cormier (17-1), the former champion's eyes tightened as if the desire to prove something was lit.
And in Le Figaro, Dominique Borde said he followed the story on Ms. Rampling's face, "unhappiness playing on her wrinkles, her lips tightened with reserve, her eyes looking away, perhaps into herself".
