| 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. |
| His belly swells grotesquely, his hands curl, his cheeks puff out, his mouth contorts into a rictus of pain. |
| These girls were laughing around me and I was laughing too but it was a rictus smile. |
| His face is increasingly frozen in a grotesque rictus of appalled indignation, which seems to be his default response to the world. |
