Sentence examples for unhappy expression from inspiring English sources

Her unhappy expression is a small victory against the casual cruelty of the propagandists.

12. Scowling or having a generally unhappy expression sends the message that you're upset by those around you, even if they have nothing to do with your mood.

Fringed mandibles [third maxillipeds] suggest a permanently turned-down mouth, giving them a disgruntled, unhappy expression; they were disagreeable rather than sinister and fell far short of their reputation.

If your eyes are lowered, if you hold an unhappy expression on your face, if you never look up, you might not look pathetic, but you will look unfriendly, hard to reach, and most certainly like a person who is best left alone.

Stimming a lot (e.g. rocking) paired with withdrawal or an unhappy expression.

There is a lot of perfectly ventriloquised dissident teenage humour, and a deliciously throwaway surreal moment when Nora happens upon a man sacrificing a sheep in a forest: "Both the man and the sheep gazed at Nora with startled, unhappy expressions, as if she'd caught them in an act they would have preferred to remain private".

I could tell by fleeting unhappy expressions on my mother's face that she believed living in Philadelphia is somehow not as good as living in Manhattan.

Unhappy facial expression.

When your shoulders are closed and hunched, and the expression unhappy, you are saying, "Leave me alone, please".

His feelings seem to show on his face — when he is unhappy or annoyed, his expression goes flat.

In Alan Ayckbourn's A Woman In Mind (1986), his portrayal of the secretly admiring doctor of the unhappy heroine found memorable expression in a strange, nervous, grating cry.