coiled

But the unexpected appearance of his father at the scene is, to judge by the coiled anger on Holland’s face, as if someone had defaced one of his works with an alien hue.

Karine Aigner spotted a yellow anaconda coiled around the snout of a yacaré caiman while leading a tour group.

Barrett’s voice was tightly coiled, as though he was choking back the indignation roiling inside him.

And though Ronan is nothing less than a wholly present actor, able to fully charge a moment with coiled energy or the freckled melancholy of her Modigliani-esque visage, she’s rarely given a chance to inhabit a scene’s possible complexities.

His body language is coiled until he really gets scared by the situation he is trying to prevent.