scowl

He is a gargoyle come to life, complete with the perpetual scowl and the mountainous muscles.

Stern and officious, the admiral scowled down at each Incorrigible.

When Penelope and the children approached, he scowled.

Lately I’ve been thinking about embracing my problem and adopting the stiff, scowling 19th-century portrait position, but that pairs even worse with a beaming kid.

Whether it’s Morton’s perpetually scowling expression in the infrequent cutaways to Brian’s life back home or the on-the-nose emphasis on looming gray clouds, there’s no question a storm is coming.