(1) One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.(2) Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement.(3) But the smile of the suicide bomber has as much to do with the source of true humour and laughter as the enforced rictus that accompanies the ritual incantation of u2018Have a nice dayu2019 in the supermarket checkout.(4) Watching Mima's personality collapse is heart-rending and compelling: she gets to a point where she doesn't know where she ends and the construct - the rictus smile, the perkiness - begins.(5) Ramirez smiled then, a terrible rictus with more than a hint of malice.(6) The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.(7) Behind the rictus grin, Winkelman must be terrified.(8) 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.(9) Ned's smile had become a rictus of repulsion(10) their faces were each frozen in a terrified rictus(11) From the fearful rictus his mouth forms, I know I've spoken the nameless question he has dreaded.(12) Despite himself, Padlin looked at the corpse's mouth, his gaze fastening for an unpleasant instant on the rictus leer stretching the dead lips.(13) Jack used to stand there in agony, a rictus grin on his face, doing his level best to disappear up his own dinner jacket.(14) These girls were laughing around me and I was laughing too but it was a rictus smile.(15) At home his face is an opaque, expressionless void; at work his mouth is frozen into a terrible, ingratiating rictus of a smile.(16) He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile.
