glower
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Nonverbal sung chorales often shimmer or glower beneath spoken text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
He rarely if ever looked at her, choosing to glower at the moderators or the camera as if she were not there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Jones’ glower could chill you to the bone, but his smiles were radiant and honest.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
When they appear, as Sephiroth often does, they glower and boast.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
The old one was Garth, huge and bald and taciturn, who wore the same greasy leather jerkin every day and always seemed to have a glower on his face.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, glowers, hand on hip.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Alyssa glowers at me and purses her lips—probably to stop herself from saying something stupid.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Mostly he glowered and, at times, looked Zen or sleepy.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
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
Ex-colleagues in dark glasses and black suits glowered from a photo in a Disney frame.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 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
She glowered at him then, and for a second, he wasn’t sure if what he was seeing was simply Clara, inches from absolutely losing it with him, or a monster.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Two more boys emerge from the soot carrying a portrait in a gilded frame, twice as tall as they are, the visage of some long-dead great-grandfather glowering at the night.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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