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Many of the movements are inchoate, dissolving almost as soon as grasped; there are repetitive tics, sternly and frowningly addressed, and sudden whims, expressed in breezily formless rushes of activity.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013

It may be pounced on frowningly and all its details subjected to legalistic analysis.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was instantly chopped short by His Majesty who frowningly jerked his head in the direction of the cheer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Vicious Circle is neither weighty nor frowningly significant, but it is about people who were intensely and hilariously alive, many of them brilliant, most of them naturals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her face hardened, her eyes leisurely scorched up and down my poor linen gown, then she turned frowningly to the glass, patted her bustle into shape, and flounced out again.

From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara