Frowns

See Also: FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, MISCELLANEOUS; LOOKS; STARES

1. A dark scowl playing on his face like a spotlight —Jonathan Valin
2. Face was screwed up as if he had a stomachache —Nina Bawden
3. Frowning like the Mask of Tragedy —Max Shulman
4. Frowned like a public character conscious of the interested stares of a large crowd but determined not to take notice of them —Joyce Cary
5. Frowning, as if at some infernal machine —Elizabeth Taylor
6. Frowning like a battered old bison who’d spent too many years at the zoo —Jonathan Kellerman
7. Frowning like a cat at a mouse hole —John Updike
8. The frown like serpents basking on the brow —Wallace Stevens
9. Glared at me like a wolf in a trap —Robert Traver
10. Glared slightly … like a judge intent upon some terrible evidence —Flannery O’Connor
11. Glares at me like a starving wolf from the forest —Bernard Malamud
12. Glares at us, his eyes like the barrels of a shotgun —T. Coraghessan Boyle
13. He was frowning, which tensed his small face up and made his deep pockmarks look like holes that went clear through his cheeks —Larry McMurtry
14. His lips curled away from his teeth like he was exposing so many switchblade knives —Donald McCaig
15. His scowl crinkled like crushed paper —F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Like a ruffled old eagle on a high, bare rock, she scowled at the setting sun —Louis Auchincloss
17. A reddened grimace of hate and fury, like a primitive mask in a museum —Iris Murdoch
18. Scowl like a cap pulled over the brow —Peter De Vries
19. Scowl like a child about to receive an injection —Laurie Colwin
20. Scowl, like he’d turn a cold into cancer if you crossed him —J. W. Rider

    The scowler is a doctor.

    See Also: DOCTORS

21. Scowled like a junkyard dog —Jay Parini
22. Teeth bared like the rats —Eudora Welty