glower

Nonverbal sung chorales often shimmer or glower beneath spoken text.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Jones’ glower could chill you to the bone, but his smiles were radiant and honest.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024

Unlike Giuliani’s glower, Eastman’s glare does not contain the threat of bloodshed.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

I see my aunt’s point about Joey being absurdly wide-eyed and empty-headed, and Roy Glenn, as John’s father, is allowed only to glower and yell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

His mouth was set in its habitual glower, the corners bent downward in perfect convexity, and his ashen head blended seamlessly into the white clouds overhead.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Inside the bright vestibule, the face of a protective Gorgon glowers at the visitor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

He glowers at the camera, clean-shaven face superimposed near a cutout of the Dome of the Rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

He glowers out from beneath his brows, unsmiling, eyes rendered oddly bloodshot, brow furrowed, chin tucked in, as if he is about to head-butt the camera.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

He glowers and glares, but one also senses that he's well aware that he looks pitiful.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2023

Causey was a master of half expression, half smiles, and half glowers, for all nuances of expression stopped at the invisible frontier that marked the dead sector of his face.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Rather than a war of words, the two septuagenarians turned the courtroom into a contest of irritated expressions: The judge frowned, Trump glowered.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

As usual, I was scared and she glowered furiously, her dirty blond curls held down with a red bandana.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2021

He glowered in a letter to The Times in answer to a mocking essay by an unrepentant jaywalker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2021

When my boyfriend read the loopy handwritten pages, he laughed out loud, and I glowered.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

Connor glowered at me, his ticcing increasing by the moment.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

The image features a glowering Trump leaning on his desk and his signature, with the text of the Declaration of Independence in the background.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

These minute works are packed with detail: Their flickering candles, flitting moths and glowering skulls appear as if they’ve been excavated from some illuminated manuscript belonging to a long-vanished medieval sect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

He may also have had in mind the many times when his glowering threats forced members of the American elite—legislators, media executives, and university presidents, among others—to bend the knee.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

“Anybody that doesn’t see that, I don’t know what they’re looking at,” the 73-year-old retiree, a former heavy equipment mechanic, said beneath a glowering sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Frank is glowering at me like he’s going to grab the phone back any second.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden