Eyes squinted, mouth pursed, he bent over slowly and bowed.
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But you could, if you squinted, create a hopeful scenario.
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Allen, a naturally caffeinated coach, squinted from afar in disbelief.
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When asked about Gabbard's candidacy Thursday, Hirono paused and squinted.
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You knew that when his eyes squinted, he was happy.
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On the teleprompter, as the fan squinted, she saw Rihanna's name.
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I squinted through the lights to the epicenter of the noise.
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If you squinted, you could mistake it for an Apple Store.
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He looked to the stage, squinted his eyes and shouted, "Bravo!"
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Mostly I squinted and cringed, because holy shit — the foot reflexology hurt.
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And if you squinted, aspects of Captain Hook's aesthetic seeped in, too.
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In the picture, my eyes were squinted and my face was rounded.
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The safety off, he closed one eye and squinted down the barrel.
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He put his hands on his hips and squinted at the water.
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Jeremy squinted, raising his hand to block the beam of my headlamp.
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When reporters asked what pitch he hit, Gillaspie squinted and shrugged, sheepish.
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I opened one eye and squinted at the sign outside.125. 125!
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His eyes were squinted in a mellow smile, hands folded in prayer.
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His soft eyes squinted and darted as he systematically sorted through the piles.
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He raised it to the fluorescent lights overhead, and squinted up at it.
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James Smith, 213, and his teacher, Shirley Coulter, squinted at the desktop monitor.
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James Smith, 213, and his teacher, Shirley Coulter, squinted at the desktop monitor.
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Collins squinted at the live newscast of his terrorist, frowning, his pulse quickening.
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This made a little bit of sense, if you sort of squinted at it.
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You are moving toward a light along whitewashed walls, concave like a squinted eye.
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Except for Justice O'Connor, who lowered her head, squinted slightly, and muttered, 'Oh, my.
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She squinted, homed in on his hands and then shifted her shoulders back with satisfaction.
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"Wait a minute," I said, squinted, and took a closer look at his gas mask.
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I squinted at the insole but couldn't make out the letters without my reading glasses.
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Ray Guidos stopped bouncing his basketball, squinted and shook his head at that fool question.
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Across the yard, white-suited figures squinted at cloths held aloft like enormous medieval scrolls.
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Are her eyes open normally instead of squinted or so wide you can see the whites?
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A distant crash of thunder rolled across the landscape and Grace squinted up at the treetops.
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He stopped looking at us for a moment, squinted his eyes, and looked at his fists.
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They squinted into the storm and let the wind suck their shirts taut against their skin.
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Biden squinted as he slowly read out the URL, initially leading internet users to a dead website.
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He squinted into the compost bin, which contained a mixture of vegetables, eggshells, and slices of bread.
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Paul stood over him, his shadow cast across the ancient face that squinted with confused, pleading eyes.
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Liu squinted, displeased with the peripheral placement of China, which had been put with India and Burma.
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At first meeting, the Lamborghini Huracán Performante resembles a giant automotive frown, its eyes squinted, ready for combat.
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If you squinted hard, you could identify procedural mechanisms the party could use to deny him the nomination.
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Andrew Weitz, an intense, wiry man whom Jossen had hired to update his look, squinted at Jossen's trousers.
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He squinted his eyes, drew back the string, and seconds later his arrow had skewered a red ball.
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An aide shouted, "Don't look," as Trump squinted up at the sun with naked eyes, multiple sources reported.
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He smirked, leaned his head to the side, and squinted his eyes at me as if I were stupid.
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If you squinted just hard enough, it looked like the sexual harassment scandal had battered someone else, not them.
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If you squinted a bit, the President might look like just another old man, yelling at the screen. ♦
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Reports have attributed this to a video made public earlier this year in which Hadid apparently squinted her eyes.
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About four minutes later, Trump again squinted directly into the sun without protective glasses for approximately one more second.
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"Dear residents of the Golan Heights," she said, finding her stride as she squinted against the rising morning sun.
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Yet throughout the first half of the book, no matter how much I squinted, I could not discern why.
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Burtynsky stood inches from the photo and squinted at a rickety pier extending from the distilleries to the creek.
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He held my poem up to the fluorescent classroom lights and squinted, the way one might examine counterfeit money.
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While all my friends would be laughing at Seinfeld with squinted eyes, I'd be in the corner, stressing and paranoid.
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You asked Cavalier fans what they expected in Game 3 and they squinted as if you were eyeing their wallets.
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I'd been told what to expect, but I wasn't prepared for the apparition that squinted back at me from the mirror.
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The face staring at me from the license was visibly plump, with heavy jowls and eyes that squinted through chubby cheeks.
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By the light of the blue screen, I squinted at hastily written notes scrawled down in a notebook about potential leads.
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I pored over a nuanced exhibit on the Black Dahlia; squinted at a high-resolution photo of a dissected human hand.
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She had encouraging signs in Texas, in Colorado, and, if you squinted hard, signs of life in Minnesota, Virginia and Oklahoma.
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He squinted across the street at a stone cliff that rises, like a castle battlement, some 20 feet above the shanties.
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Woods squinted at the line of the 713-foot putt, wiped the blade of his putter, addressed the ball and missed.
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He held it up, and we all squinted at the flattened forest green square with plastic hairs fraying at its edges.
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Early Friday morning, bleary-eyed reporters couldn't see the path forward on Obamacare repeal and replace no matter how hard they squinted.
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If I squinted, Diamond Bar was the same as the majority-white communities I grew up in in Nebraska, Minnesota, and Alabama.
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Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.
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"It's the obvious solution," she said as she squinted through the dawn light to watch the helicopter rounding up horses she knew.
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Defining meaning Just look at the tears of joy emoji, the well-known yellow face with squinted eyes and tear drops flying out.
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I am just like you, I thought when kids squinted at me in mockery of my own eyes; why can't you see that?
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Emily squinted at the floor, then at the bottom of the box spring, as though perhaps the bed frame had stuck to it.
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They squinted to the west where, about a mile away, they could see the flames and smoke billowing up into the night sky.
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"I'm pleased to see [the data] to a certain extent, but I've also go to look at it with squinted eyes," he said.
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You could see the old bridge, if you stood on a chair and looked at an angle and squinted and it wasn't foggy.
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She squinted at Sunny, as if the light was too brilliant to bear, though what filtered through the canopy was soft and emerald.
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Maeve Higgins As I squinted and sweated to the office recently, I realized that summer's here and it's too late to work out.
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When I squinted, I looked like a real-live celeb and felt like a prom queen at a 50k-a-year private high school.
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When Ariana appeared on The Tonight Show in 2015, she squinted up a storm during a "Wheel of Musical Impressions" game with Jimmy Fallon.
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Then she squinted into the dimmed nightclub and made the usual hand motion of a performer beckoning the composer to share in the applause.
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They both squinted their eyes as they looked high into the sky to check out the roaring fly-past by the Royal Air Force.
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Amit tugged on the hem of her skirt and squinted through the windshield as if some easier answer might be scrawled on the sidewalk.
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I paused, squinted and I watched the man driving the Porsche rush up the twisty mountainside as I debated whether I should chase him.
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The real Churchill, sometimes to his chagrin, was painted to look much like a joyless bulldog, with squinted eyes and a protruding lower lip.
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We mostly saw curious passers-by who squinted to read a sign at the top, or fixed their hair using the booth's reflective doors.
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No detail was too small for Mr. Govan as he squinted his eyes and directed two workers, hoisting a framed canvas against a wall.
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Halfway through The Meg, I squinted at my notes and realized I'd just been writing down names of other blockbusters I'd seen this summer.
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He bent over and put his face in hands, and when he looked up, Sofia's mother squinted at him in disbelief, shaking her head.
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The sun's reflection was bright on the water's surface, and LaTanya squinted to see the damage ahead, which looked no different from that behind her.
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As I watched, the free people squinted their eyes at the prison bus as we rode by, and I could almost hear their judgmental thoughts.
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"I'd love your support, Phil," the candidate said as he squinted at his own handwriting, a scrawl in black marker on a piece of paper.
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And if you squinted closely enough, you could interpret some Michigan polling as confirming this suspicion: Trump & Rubio dropped over the weekend; Cruz & Kasich rose.
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I squinted, then tried to relax my eyelids, but inadvertently began to focus on the bright orange cushion of the person in front of me.
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The boy squinted at you when he talked, as if you were a white-skinned lizard and he could see the pulse of your heart.
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On a recent morning, an officer at the Los Angeles warehouse squinted as he noticed something fishy about a package passing through his x-ray machine.
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My boyfriend and I were in the middle of dinner — we eat late because of his work schedule — and I squinted at my phone before answering.
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Or the way she and Olivia Colman squinted at a fan's iPhone camera and ebulliently said, "Gay rights!" into a fan's camera phone at the BAFTAs.
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We tracked down versions of every iPhone ever made, turned them on, squinted at their tiny, pixelated screens, and laughed at their lack of push notifications.
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If I were being asked on command to cry, this is the exact face I would pull: eyes squinted, eyebrows cartoonishly inverted, somber expression, no smile.
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He squinted and said in the most measured way, "Holy shit," then stepped away from the door and swung his arm back for me to enter.
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In another cartoon, from October 1942, Emperor Hirohito, the leader of Japan during World War II, is depicted as having squinted eyes and a goofy smile.
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As I rested my chin on clasped hands and squinted at the tiny TV screen, nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see.
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Sitting on the lawn of the state capitol after an anti–SB 4 rally, Estefania Ponce plucked blades of grass and squinted in the bright Texas sunshine.
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If you squinted at Trump, as Bannon — who only joined the campaign a year ago — seems to have been doing, you could see him as that candidate.
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"He had almost a frightful face at times," Mr. Rossi said, pointing out how Mr. Trump's brow remained furrowed as he squinted for much of the debate.
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It was clumsy and frustrating, especially because if you squinted, you could see how the outcomes could have been powerful if the lead-ups hadn't been mismanaged.
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FAJARDO, P.R. — Juan Jimenez squinted into the dark lobby of his bank early Friday, thinking about the paycheck sitting in his account, just behind the locked doors.
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I wanted to appear worldly, in control of myself, so I laid my throbbing head against the glass and squinted at the motorway signs for Edinburgh. Edinburgh!
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At least once in your life, you must have squinted at the eye chart at the doctor's office or DMV, trying to make out the blurry bottom line.
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But if TV viewers had squinted at the crawl, they would have noticed that Sanders was pulling off a stunning, poll-defying upset—defeating Clinton by 1.5 percent.
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Here was a princess that not only looked a lot like me, but also led an existence that, if I squinted my eyes, looked a lot like mine.
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Sudani Ausby, a junior at the High School of Fashion Industries in Chelsea, squinted as she emerged from the darkroom holding a freshly printed 8-by-10 photograph.
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I don't remember most of what happened that day but I do remember some sort of confusing numbers puzzle and a blurry squinted vision of my brother's face laughing.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The opening chords of the selection "How Great Is Our God" rang through the sanctuary right after the leader offering the invocational prayer squinted his eyes closed.
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For much of the debate, viewers could — sort of, if they squinted — see the Donald Trump that his advisers and coaches had been trying to summon since the spring.
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" When it comes to Kyle Chander — he played the coach in "Friday Night Lights" — she nails "the expressive restraint of his smoldering gaze and his squinted grin of chagrin.
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"The land here is not just beautiful but untouched, so we wanted to produce something that felt, if you squinted your eyes, like it was always there," Gandhi says.
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His beard was long and he had no mustache, in imitation of the Prophet Muhammad, and he squinted through reading glasses perched on his nose while peering at his iPhone.
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After a few minutes, another press aide, Nick Merrill, popped his head out of the conference room, faux-squinted in my direction and said the doctor would see me now.
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Mr. Vargas, in town from San Diego, squinted at a figure of a tugboat crewman depicted in weathered bronze on a stately pedestal situated at the southern tip of Manhattan.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump stood before thousands of supporters in Mississippi on Friday night, squinted and pointed, and told them he was seeing something that was not actually happening.
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But as I worked in a dark carrel of the National Archives outside Boston, cranking through wheels of census microfilm, I squinted through page after fuzzy page and saw something different.
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But hey, the nearest railhead was only 35-miles away, so if the denizens of Los Alamos closed their eyes and squinted, they could almost imagine they were still connected to civilization.
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Arvai was sick of sitting through slide decks containing walls of text and bullet-pointed lists, listening to the speaker ramble on while the audience squinted at the words on the screen.
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Once, while lying in bed with my head against his shoulder, he squinted at his phone and I caught a glimpse of the name at the top of a text message: Sophie.
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From the deck of a boat in New York harbor, the chief executive of Equinor squinted toward a stretch of sea where his oil company will soon build a giant wind farm.
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The viewer cannot help but assign an entire range of emotions to its face: melancholic (mouth downturned), upset (eyes squinted shut), skeptical (a sideways glance), pensive (the tilt of its head to the left).
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She sat next to another lioness like a sphinx, with giant paws crossed in front of her, basking in the last warm rays of the sun as she squinted at us through one eye.
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I'd last a day or two before emerging into the daylight with squinted eyes and a cigarette perched between my chapped lips, already feeling better having decided to ditch my detox and get high.
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Trained to identify counterfeit money, Orefice, who makes about $2200.4,228 a year, held the larger bills up and squinted into the afternoon sun to check for the telltale presidential outlines that verify their authenticity.
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Newsom squinted at the surroundings and said, "All this in the shadow of the Salesforce Tower"—the city's tallest building, whose anchor tenant is Salesforce, the cloud-computing company run by his friend Marc Benioff.
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When Trump was down by around 10 points in some polls, it was possible, if you squinted a bit, to envision wildly depressed Republican turnout that might allow Democrats to eke out a House victory.
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More reasonable was a purple polo shirt with black and white trim ($310), with the B logo slanted at an angle so that if you squinted, you might see the tilted P of Palace Skateboards.
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Emerging from her secluded home in Seoul's Gangnam neighborhood for the first time since leaving the presidential Blue House nine days earlier, Park squinted in the bright morning light at the hundreds of supporters gathered outside.
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And as they zig-a-zig-ah'd under the creaking disco ball, I squinted through the thick e-cig vapour and thought to myself, Who are these women with their Spice skills and knock-off wigs?
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They both wore canvas shorts and bleached-out polo shirts, and if you squinted, ignored the face tats and sun damage and drug scorch, you could picture them cavorting on a tennis court in the Hamptons.
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Recently, at Sacramento Police Headquarters, Ms. Langhus squinted through a magnifying glass and looked for a match between two fingerprints — one pulled from a shell casing at a shooting scene and another from the department's records.
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I liked stories about places that only the stubborn or ingenious searcher could find, or stories about imaginary things that became real when you drew them well or said the forgotten phrase or squinted the right way.
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I loved the way his eyes squinted when he laughed and when he flashed his dazzling smile; I loved the mesmerizing sway of his tiptoed gait, the random debates we'd have because he loved being playfully argumentative.
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So in the Medusa scans, we get a really nice sense of the eye topology — meaning what's happening to the eyelids, and when the eyelids are closed, or being squinted tightly, how the skin folds, and all that.
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"He was this adorable, curly-haired blond guy sitting next to his friends, and his girlfriend," said Ms. Blackman, 29, recalling the moment in July 2011 at Westhampton Beach, N.Y., where she first laid squinted eyes on him.
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The streaks of pale sunlight and gray ash floating over everything reminded me of nothing less than 300, the 2007 movie that was kind of a weird Iraq War apologia if you squinted at it for long enough.
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A show like Murphy Brown or The Dick Van Dyke Show could have gay-but-not characters whom queer audiences could see themselves in if they squinted enough, but who never actually had to be gay, let alone saying they were.
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Any parent that's squinted at a live feed from a baby camera, trying to spot the subtle movements that indicate their child is still breathing, will wish they had First Alert's new Onelink Envirocam that can monitor an infant's respiration rate from afar.
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For the people who weren't there, it's projection of themselves into a moment that never existed for them, a time when you could maybe, if you squinted, absolve yourself from having to reconcile your personal existence with the world that affords that existence.
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I squinted at the angry insectoids as they quietly traded swooshes with arms and legs — from our spot, you only heard noise from the ring when it was loud enough to be picked up by the microphones concealed somewhere above or below it.
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In the variant cover image of an upcoming Marvel comic, "Civil War II: Choosing Sides #5," Trudeau appears slouched in a boxing ring, his blue eyes squinted, his teeth gritted in a smile, and a big red maple leaf on his boxing jersey.
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In the beige scrubland of the Nevada desert, with jagged mountains in the distance jutting up like the teeth of car keys and red-dirt berms all around, I could've squinted and imagined myself on a forward operating base somewhere in southern Afghanistan.
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When someone figured out you can trick an enemy into being struck by lightning by slipping them a metal weapon in a thunderstorm, it was like a million gamers worldwide squinted, said "wait, what?" and ran to their Switch to try it.
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But at least with the ArcaBoard there was some novelty, and if you squinted hard enough you could see the product serving as a marketing tool for the otherwise obscure space company while also maybe bringing some sort of learnings back to the company.
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PARIS — The guests at this Left Bank bistro squinted at the unexpected dishes on the menu on a recent evening: purée of orange lentils, kebbeh and spinach; mackerel marinated with sweet peppers and tahini; quail served with freekeh, a grain found in the eastern Mediterranean.
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This otherwise perfectly charming man droned on and on, issuing a steady stream of words as I sat cramped in a tiny room with a group of fellow journalists and squinted at the labels on the soda cans hospitably placed on a table in front of us.
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You've probably squinted at your bank balance, thinking, hmm that number looks lower than I expected, but I did get carried away at the pub and do that thing where I offer to pay for the gin we take back to Katie's afterward, and so on.
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She carved a symbol that some women thought represented the four elements or the seven chakras or a horizontal bar with the Greek letters "alpha" and "mu," but if you squinted and looked again, contained within them a different talisman: a K and an R — Raniere's initials.
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Only three other people saw it all go down, and we all reacted differently: I stood there—still 30 feet away—and squinted at his body for at least ten minutes, while the woman walking her child to the daycare center on that block called 9-1-1.
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Parker tried several iterations of the shot — with and without the hat, with the phone close to the tableau, then further away — and critically squinted at one shot after another before landing on the perfect one, which (thanks to the magic of the internet) you can see below.
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At the bridge over the river where there is a steep ramp, outside our town and about two miles from our house, Daddy parked the car and said to Lula, Give me Snowflake, and Daddy squinted at us in the rearview mirror and said, Give me Pumpkin, and give me Cinder.
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The fact that I didn't realize this until I downloaded a gray background image and squinted at the bottom of the screen suggests that image retention issues at least won't be something that gravely affects all users early on, but whether or not these problems worsen is something we'll have to keep an eye on.
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People doubled back, buzzed their horns and squinted their eyes, staring as if their sight had somehow deceived them, that it might all be a mirage, that the man who some had labelled the King of The North could be just standing on a curb in Moston, or quietly eating lunch in the city center.
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The impression I got from him was one of earnestness, and thoughtfulness; he listened intently to my questions and squinted in concentration as he answered, and despite his reputation for ego, seemed quite self-aware and even humble, especially when we talked about what it's like to play in Metallica as your day job.
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All of which is to say, he performed at Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona this past weekend (no, I didn't go either, and yes, I had to experience it vicariously through other people's Instagram stories, which I squinted at on my tiny phone screen while straining my ears to pick up the tinny sound).
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And this is basically what it was like for the hour and a half between the program's scheduled beginning and the first Kanye sighting: the songs were mostly worship and there was the occasional shirtless zealot yelling about how "he is risen" and all that, but if you squinted this was the platonic ideal of a lazy end to the weekend.
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The story of Warby Parker more or less conforms to this narrative: One of the young student-founders lost his glasses on a backpacking trip, discovered that they were too expensive to replace, squinted for months and then, with friends who could relate, built a company in 2010 with the goal of producing good-looking glasses that didn't cost many hundreds of dollars.
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I watched her during the Democratic primaries in 2008 as she greeted a crowd of voters in Charleston, W.Va. One woman described to Clinton a litany of her life's struggles in the space of a few seconds (her husband's diabetes, their lack of health insurance); the candidate nodded through squinted eyes, signed an autograph on a napkin and hugged the woman, who walked away in tears.
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This last one, the urban challenge, they had stunt drivers out there bringing traffic into it and following the vehicles around and the vehicles themselves had to interact with one another, so if two of them came to a four-way intersection with stop signs, they had to stop and take turns and if you squinted, you could kind of see the future, right?
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As I drifted further and further into my quarantined stupor, my attempts to read anything became ridiculous, often resulting in a book held diagonally in a trembling hand, examined with one eye squinted and the other shut, until I eventually added the reading of books to the many other higher order activities that had once separated me from the rest of the nonhuman animal kingdom and that I could no longer reliably perform.
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Now, we stood at the top of the cliffs of Hermaness, home to some of the largest colonies of nesting seabirds in the U.K. We squinted through the fog, our knitted scarves whipping in the wind, trying to keep our feet on the ground and our knitted hats (many of them made special for Wool Week, which sends a new hat pattern to participants every year) on our heads as the howling gusts of wind pulled at us.
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And he made it to the hooch and overturned the toilet paper, they called them sweet rolls, gathered three ammunition boxes, and hobbled in his nut-crumpled state expecting to be hit and then to explode with all the rounds in his arms; and he was going as fast as he could, his eyes on the destination, the trench, to get behind the sandbags; but higher up, going on solid ground and running back toward the perimeter with the dawnish light, he had another vantage than before; and the light better; one of the boxes threatening to fall; and he tried to keep his eyes on the trench, to get back there; but he had this other vantage now, and his eyes looking upward squinted against the smoke—and that was when he saw them.
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