glower
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Nonverbal sung chorales often shimmer or glower beneath spoken text.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Jones’ glower could chill you to the bone, but his smiles were radiant and honest.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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
I see my aunt’s point about Joey being absurdly wide-eyed and empty-headed, and Roy Glenn, as John’s father, is allowed only to glower and yell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
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
But onstage, he glowers with the best of them.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
He glowers and glares, but one also senses that he's well aware that he looks pitiful.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2023
My grandfather glowers at him as he passes.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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
He glowered and then gestured for the waiter to bring the check.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Cory crossed his arms and glowered at us.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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
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
KFC is taking shots at rivals in its marketing, and in restaurants it is making light of the situation, putting up signs featuring a glowering Colonel Sanders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
The elevator opened with a second load of passengers— paramedics this time, with Amadeus glowering at the rear.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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