red-faced

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They sit toe to toe on the gym floor, and Ilya offers a red-faced, panting Shane his water bottle.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

Lead attorneys like the red-faced lawyer had made money not only by settling their own clients’ cases but by spearheading the lawsuit.

From Slate • Jan. 13, 2026

It was a reach—“I’m never mad,” Manley said—so he asked Chalamet to berate him off-camera to get worked up for a red-faced confrontation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

At his final concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic 16 years ago, every musician in the orchestra stood in line onstage to hug a red-faced Esa-Pekka Salonen.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025

One moment she was talking and the next she was on all fours, wide-eyed and red-faced, trying to draw a breath.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini