bedhead
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Torres gives his character constant bedhead and it makes sense: He’s in a waking nightmare no less warped than the one from “Beau Is Afraid.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
PICTURE> PICTRUE: Selfie where you have giant nose pores, bedhead and that 10 pounds “the camera added.”
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
Fusilli looks like my bedhead if I haven't slept on a silk pillowcase, which is to say a short, tight, corkscrew shape.
From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2022
“A tip for tomorrow morning’s 9 a.m. videoconference call: Doubled-up headbands make bedhead look beautiful,” Anthropologie proclaimed in a recent Instagram post.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2020
He sweated, his whole body shook, and his knuckles turned white round the iron bedhead, but he did not make a sound as she continued to pull the pieces clear.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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