rictus

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Recent Examples of rictus When Martin dies in class after getting frightened in a dream, the sheet is accidentally pulled off of his gurney to reveal his death rictus. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024 The entire final sequence, which sees Carter, with a rictus grin, slaughtering his wife in the kitchen, envisions the self-destruction of the nuclear family. Beatrice Loayza, Vulture, 12 July 2024 McAvoy’s gift for a rictus grin and a swaggering machismo that eases you into feeling comfortable, only to twist on a 180 into pure psychopathy, is well-played here. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2024
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Noun
  • Peter Sarsgaard was turning his character into a despicable little weasel through a masterclass of smirks.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2024
  • Hadid, in response, cocks her head thoughtfully, stares at Travis, and gives a little smirk.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • One approach, adopted by Lynda Benglis, Urs Fischer, and Christopher Wool, involves digitally capturing a chance form—a squeeze of clay, a snarl of wire—then enlarging that scan to monumental proportions, both dramatizing and satirizing the superpowers that artists now have at their disposal.
    Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Another video, this one with 2.5 million views, manages to blow FromSoftware’s three-minute gameplay trailer out into a 40-minute dissection of each and every look, snarl, or skeleton.
    Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 17 June 2024
Noun
  • And in between those two towering achievements, Dylan assumes the mantle of rock stardom, delivering surrealist lyrics with an iconic sneer.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Whatever happened to common courtesies in lieu of belittlements, sneers or vilification?
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This Max Max style road race never fails to elicit gasps of wonder and growls of friendly frustration when the dice come up in an unexpected way.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • With quarterback Fernando Mendoza sidelined by an overnight illness, the Bears had no growl on offense at No. 9 SMU, trailing 21-0 at halftime on the way to a 38-6 defeat in their regular-season finale.
    Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 30 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Today’s announcement marks the emergence of a new GE, a high-tech industrial GE — simper, stronger, a more focused company at the core.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
  • Al Capone lived as a schoolyard bully, died in a simper with a brain et by syphilis, and lives on through eternity as a cigarillo mascot and gimme film role for dark-haired white actors who want a chance to really chew some scenery.
    Paul Dailing, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017

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“Rictus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rictus. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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