[nq:1]I am looking for an apt description of the expression on this child's face: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s173/Maestro 50/baby.jpg I don't think it is a pout, nor a scowl. "Unhappy" is too generic. What is it? Disgust?[/nq] It looks like the baby has just been fed som
[nq:1]I am looking for an apt description of the expression on this child's face: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s173/Maestro 50/baby.jpg I don't think it is a pout, nor a scowl. "Unhappy" is too generic. What is it? Disgust?[/nq] Distaste?
[nq:1]I am looking for an apt description of the expression on this child's face: http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s173/Maestro 50/baby.jpg I don't think it is a pout, nor a scowl. "Unhappy" is too generic. What is it? Disgust?[/nq] A grimace?
[nq:2]I am looking for an apt description of the expression ... a scowl. "Unhappy" is too generic. What is it? Disgust?[/nq] [nq:1]Distaste?[/nq] The expression appears to be a "grimace": http://www.askoxford.com/concise oed/grimace?view=uk
grimace noun an ugly, twisted expression on a person's
[nq:2]Distaste?[/nq] [nq:1]The expression appears to be a "grimace": http://www.askoxford.com/concise oed/grimace?view=uk grimace[/nq] That's it. But as the OP asks further on, why? [nq:1]noun an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement. In this case I think the
[nq:1]It looks like the baby has just been fed something extremely sour. But I can't think of a single word to describe it.[/nq] I see that photobucket has blocked the full photo to which I linked. Better so, perhaps, as it would distract from the child's face, which is all that I am concerned about. I have received another suggestion: constipation. Of course, constipation is not a descrip
(Email Removed) schrieb: [nq:2]It looks like the baby has just been fed something extremely sour. But I can't think of a single word to describe it.[/nq] [nq:1]I see that photobucket has blocked the full photo to which I linked. Better so, perhaps, as it would distract ... speculate about the cause of this grimace hundreds of years hence, like people do today about Mona Lisa's smile?
At 03:02:25 on Fri, 12 Oct 2007, (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): [nq:1]I have received another suggestion: constipation. Of course, constipation is not a description for a facial expression but I can easily imagine a constipated child, sitting on the pot and squeezing hard, making that face.[/nq] I don't think a child of that age would squeeze and strain that hard, not being old
[nq:2]It looks like the baby has just been fed something extremely sour. But I can't think of a single word to describe it.[/nq] [nq:1]I see that photobucket has blocked the full photo to which I linked. Better so, perhaps, as it would distract from the child's face, which is all that I am concerned about.[/nq] I react differently to this removal of the full picture.