glower
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Nonverbal sung chorales often shimmer or glower beneath spoken text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
You can’t watch his work in “The Gentlemen” or his glower and stalking throughout “The Mandalorian” without being reminded of his performance as the unforgettable narcotics distributor and imposing proprietor of Los Hermanos Pollos.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2024
When they appear, as Sephiroth often does, they glower and boast.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
You could definitely see it in the witness box: Bankman-Fried was fidgeting throughout, shifting left and right in his seat, and glaring at the courtroom with a low-eyebrow glower and a consistent frown.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2023
Matthias’ glower went dark as a rain-heavy sky ready to split.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
A red-eyed beast glowers near the Pompidou Art Gallery.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
Will Anderson Jr. glowers at the camera like it was an opposing quarterback on third-and-5.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
She glowers at me, quickly pulling her face mask back over her mouth before Barb notices.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
Mostly he glowered and, at times, looked Zen or sleepy.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
He glowered and eventually tried to leave the courtroom so quickly that he had to be told to sit down by the judge.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
Where his alleged co-conspirators displayed varying levels of shock, despair, and derangement, Trump glowered at the camera, creating an indelible photo.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2023
As their laughter echoed down the hallway, stern faces glowered from old black-and-white portraits in gilded frames.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
Babou glowered at the cashier and started arguing about the price of admission.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
“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
He was glowering through pink-rimmed eyes under his combover, every inch the mean man everyone avoids at the retirement home.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024
A dark, fanged creature lurked just behind the hero, glowering malevolently.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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