Example Sentences

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This image was not exactly a chilling admonitory study in pure evil, akin to Mephistopheles or Dorian Gray; it was far closer to the what-me-worry/get-out-of-my-way rictuses of a Gob Bluth or a George W Bush.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2015

You’ll then be forced to laugh aloud on cue—looking around in discomfort at the rictuses of your neighbors.

From Slate • May 10, 2015