The misogyny of the work is tempered by the mien of the suitor: eyes bulging, he, too, shows his teeth in an unflattering, goofygrimace.
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Thegrimaceis seen in a rhesus monkey or a chimpanzee crouching from attack by a dominant.
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Passive verbs will make you chuckle, orgrimace, depending on how daft they sound.
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The children's exaggerated grimaces create excessively parodical tableaux vivants.
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Sometimes only partial materialization was achieved, with grimacing faces, flapping hands, and so on poking out from the cabinet.
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Is this agrimace, or help-seeking through ingratiation?
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Thisgrimaceis part of a general body flexor tension.
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However, the teachers noted an excess of twitches and grimaces at age 15 years and also poor performance in physical activities.
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The mature animals were also tested on their ability to discriminate fear grimaces from open mouth threats.
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His face is often covered with improbable facial hair, pulled into grimaces, and topped with outlandish hats.
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Her skeletal face features a wide toothygrimace; strands of curling, tousled hair may once have been attached to the series of holes along the hairline.
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What was left - the grin (or perhapsgrimace) after the cat had disappeared - were the ethical stances, the parade of virtue amidst corruption, the foundations of a ' country ' tradition.
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And they produce these grimaces precisely when they arrive at those dissonances that offend the sense, to demonstrate that which they do, others should likewise do.
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They looked terrified at the bear of a man striding towards them with an extraordinarygrimaceon his face.
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I have never found that grimacing is a good substitute for argument.
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