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
Miranda, returning to school for a master’s degree, spends her first day of class nervously dropping microaggressions while her younger classmates glower at her.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Matthias’ glower went dark as a rain-heavy sky ready to split.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
A red-eyed beast glowers near the Pompidou Art Gallery.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2023
Helene glowers at me, but her hands shake as she gives me the water.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
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
James Gandolfini, the original Tony Soprano, glowered in a poster overhead, but Nivola looked like a boss.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
Babou glowered at the cashier and started arguing about the price of admission.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
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
He was glowering through pink-rimmed eyes under his combover, every inch the mean man everyone avoids at the retirement home.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2024
Anya felt much less brave when Sigurd was glowering right at her, but she didn’t want him to know that.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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