smooth-faced

The smooth-faced pontiff, mourning Rome's destruction and now at the mercy of the Emperor who destroyed it, ceased shaving as a sign of contrition and penance for sins that surely were the cause of God's punishment.

There is something both unnerving and poignant about seeing these familiar faces turned into younger versions of themselves, because they don’t quite recapture the smooth-faced stars we remember.

That talking point made it into the papers courtesy of Joseph Alsop, a syndicated columnist who described Dean as “a smooth-faced young man who is reportedly obsessed by fear of going to jail.”

From the neck down he was the same old Grandpa Blakeslee; from the neck up he was a distinguished, smooth-faced stranger who looked kind of familiar.

At its climax our heroes must escape from certain death deep underground and then, without ropes or handholds, somehow scale the 80 feet of a smooth-faced well that is rapidly filling with water.