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In its promos and trailers, Neon has deftly concealed what Cage’s character — a basement dweller who lives for the devil and has stringy, white hair and a rictus grin — actually looks like.
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 July 2024
These include a chocolate-brown safe about five feet tall that reveals itself to be full of bobbleheads, the tottering rictus of Suns-era Stephon Marbury peering out at me from the dark.
—Giri Nathan, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
Coverage of his personal appearances focused on his obvious discomfort in meeting with strangers and his fruitless efforts to laugh or even crack a smile, which tended to produce only a hideous facial rictus.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
Portman and Moore don’t look like average women but resemble drag queens specializing in stealthy passion and uneasy self-control — one a professional parasite and the other a pathetic sociopath, each fronting rictus grins.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Charles is all neurosis and shame, hunched over, face frozen in a rictus of repulsion at his own existence, worried constantly about rejection.
—Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
But when a pretty grad student comes in one day complaining of an evil, smirking presence that's followed her for years, then suddenly breaks into a frozen rictus of a grin and essentially slices her own face off in the waiting room, Rose is more than shaken.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2022
His face remained a rictus of vague pleasure.
—Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
By pouring plaster into these holes and then removing the surrounding ash, the archaeologists were left with exquisitely detailed facsimiles of Pompeians, in some cases showing the type of fabric worn by the victims and even faces contorted eerily in the rictus of death.
—Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2014
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 July 2024
These include a chocolate-brown safe about five feet tall that reveals itself to be full of bobbleheads, the tottering rictus of Suns-era Stephon Marbury peering out at me from the dark.
—Giri Nathan, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
Coverage of his personal appearances focused on his obvious discomfort in meeting with strangers and his fruitless efforts to laugh or even crack a smile, which tended to produce only a hideous facial rictus.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
Portman and Moore don’t look like average women but resemble drag queens specializing in stealthy passion and uneasy self-control — one a professional parasite and the other a pathetic sociopath, each fronting rictus grins.
—Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
Charles is all neurosis and shame, hunched over, face frozen in a rictus of repulsion at his own existence, worried constantly about rejection.
—Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
But when a pretty grad student comes in one day complaining of an evil, smirking presence that's followed her for years, then suddenly breaks into a frozen rictus of a grin and essentially slices her own face off in the waiting room, Rose is more than shaken.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2022
His face remained a rictus of vague pleasure.
—Andrew Martin, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
By pouring plaster into these holes and then removing the surrounding ash, the archaeologists were left with exquisitely detailed facsimiles of Pompeians, in some cases showing the type of fabric worn by the victims and even faces contorted eerily in the rictus of death.
—Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2014
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“Rictus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rictus. Accessed 15 Sep. 2024.
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