| I felt my lips tighten in a rictus that was closer to a grimace than a smile. |
| Jack used to stand there in agony, a rictus grin on his face, doing his level best to disappear up his own dinner jacket. |
| From the fearful rictus his mouth forms, I know I've spoken the nameless question he has dreaded. |
| Having achieved the single most sinister moment on television this year, Gordon bares his teeth, flares his nostrils and pulls his face back into a rictus of a smile. |
| Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement. |
| He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile. |
