look sullen
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“Buy them when they look sullen, when they’re looking away, when they look angry or sad. The happy-faced ones never pay off.”
From Washington Post ● May 22, 2017
The long, defiant hair of the late 1960s falls to the floor; the young men look sullen or stern.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, drawing back sharply, his manner changed, and he began to look sullen, as he said in a morose voice: “Didn’t your father say anything to you about me?”
From First in the Field A Story of New South Wales by L. Rahey
The other, Manteca, was so much human refuse; his eyes were almost hidden, his look sullen; his wiry straight hair fen over his ears, forehead and neck; his scrofulous lips hung eternally agape.
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía
Ay, Messer Pisano, it is no use for you to look sullen; you may as well carry your banner to our San Giovanni with a good grace.
From Romola by George Eliot
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