hangdog look
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I recently watched some of your “Godfather” screen tests and you seemed to have this hangdog look on your face as you are asked to go through it again and again.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
Sting passes through the production with the rumbling chest, scratchy voice and hangdog look of his character, whose lungs have been ruined by his trade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2020
His hangdog look is interrupted by a sudden grin.
From The Guardian ● May 26, 2017
Adam Brace, who in Stovepipe brought Iraq to a Shepherd's Bush shopping mall, provides an underdog but not hangdog look at the Games.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2012
They’re older, and they have the hangdog look I associate with the folks who came up enslaved, who never knew a taste of freedom until it was too late for them to properly embrace it.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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