glower
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“The result?” he says, with a tough-guy glower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
Nonverbal sung chorales often shimmer or glower beneath spoken text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Looking back at 1968, I guess listening to Allen Ginsberg read and seeing Gregory Corso glower and hearing Ed Sanders chant comprised a microcosm of hip that was simply taken for granted.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022
But this was a relatively happy glower, for he got to watch Cam Newton, Brady’s replacement, lead the Patriots to a comfortable 21-11 win over the Miami Dolphins.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2020
No. “Well—this is just a literary sort of exercise,” Pacheco told him scornfully, at last awarding the spiders a disdainful glower.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
At the head of the table sits Mr. McCracken, who glowers at everyone as if he were a lord presiding over his fiefdom.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
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
James Gandolfini, the original Tony Soprano, glowered in a poster overhead, but Nivola looked like a boss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 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
The tiger glowered ferociously, stalked to the edge of the well, and snarled into the blackness.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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
Few of the projected details included here are more unfortunate than the one-note, relentlessly glowering expressions of the dancers performing Tybalt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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
It’s been broadly debated whether the novel actually is a love story between the snobbish Cathy and the glowering Heathcliff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Two hundred marchers headed downtown, through streets lined by glowering law enforcement officers.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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