| Despite himself, Padlin looked at the corpse's mouth, his gaze fastening for an unpleasant instant on the rictus leer stretching the dead lips. |
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| From the fearful rictus his mouth forms, I know I've spoken the nameless question he has dreaded. |
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| One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction. |
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| Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement. |
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| His face is increasingly frozen in a grotesque rictus of appalled indignation, which seems to be his default response to the world. |
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| He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile. |
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| These girls were laughing around me and I was laughing too but it was a rictus smile. |
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| David Whitton apparently had to massage Jack's face afterwards to help him get rid of the rictus smile he'd been wearing all morning. |
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| I felt my lips tighten in a rictus that was closer to a grimace than a smile. |
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| Jack used to stand there in agony, a rictus grin on his face, doing his level best to disappear up his own dinner jacket. |
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| Speaking quietly with his lawyer in court, his face periodically flexed, in a sudden rictus, a mirthless smile. |
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| His belly swells grotesquely, his hands curl, his cheeks puff out, his mouth contorts into a rictus of pain. |
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| 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. |
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| Ramirez smiled then, a terrible rictus with more than a hint of malice. |
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| He shows a thick hair and beard, shut eyelids and open mouth in a rictus of pleasure. |
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| Not forgetting, of course, rictus grinner Dr Dawn Harper banging on about her favourite subject. |
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| Twin-sets were ruffled, Prada suits twitched, face-lifts were stretched into rictus grins of fear. |
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| As Anton du Beke guided Laila Rouass to first place last Saturday, his cheesy, queasy smile was petrified in a rictus grin. |
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| The gods have smiled so much on Tugan that communal rictus must have set in on Mount Olympus. |
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| Sitting there on TV with that cracked rictus of their dessicated smile, but they have a cracked unfulfilled spirit. |
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| Her expression was in rictus last week as if she knew her arrival was ill timed. |
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| We looked at photographs of what happens to people with rabies and realised they go into this sort of frozen, rictus state. |
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| In the posh seats, Fabio Capello managed a rictus grin at the prospect of a comfortable passage to the 2014 World Cup. |
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| A dog with its lips curled back in a rictus of fear rushed at the incandescent figure, but as soon as its front paws touched the entity's leg, the canine dropped dead. |
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