I have not yet seen the photographs but I see the word 'rictus' coming to my mind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
But it was a trick of the rictus muscles entirely. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Merchants]
Slowly his smile widened to a death's-head rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
There was foam on the lips, rictus baring the teeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
He grinned again, but this time it was a painful rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
A rictus grin of exposed skin gleamed along it fleshless face. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
He winked at me, oblivious to my pallor and rictus of a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
His face wanted a twitching, teeth-clenching rictus sardonicus. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny's Road]
Hamish gave a smile which was more like a rictus and backed off. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
The black blade rose; narrow lips peeled back in a rictus snarl. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
He nodded; this time his smile had a frightening, rictus quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
His face was distorted in a rictus grin that showed his back teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
His lips pulled into a rictus smile as he oared through the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Shiver]
Their eyes stared sightlessly in the dark, teeth bared in rictus grins. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
The freshly-shaved face of the young man training us froze in a rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Shaun Gatter: Campaign Journal: Canvassing for Mandela and Obama in Bristol, PA] Reference
Your face instantly defaults to a rictus-like smile that's quite scary. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Alderman: Eyes on the Candidates: A Few Modest Suggestions] Reference
Her face was a rictus grin that indicated further work in the jaw and throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
His eyes were still open, but his face was twisted in the final death rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
Hakeswill's face twitched uncontrollably, but he was smiling under the rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
The driver tossed his head back, face twitching in a rictus that was not a grin. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Noon]
Their heads looked like the skulls of dead cats, teeth gleaming in a rictus grin. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers Majere]
El Murid's lips stretched in a rictus of a smile, cracking because they were dry. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
Venera's face was twisted into a rictus of fury, muscles jumping in her famous jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
Their teeth, showing skull-white in the powder-dark faces, grinned as if in rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
Though it was the same lovely smile she™d always had, he saw only a terrible rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
But as I was smiling at her success, my grin suddenly stiffened into a sort of rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Finally, he™d managed a nod, Tancred had smiled, a horrible rictus filmed with blood. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
Kleitus gave a rictus smile, "When all you need to do is step inside the Seventh Gate.". From Wordnik.com. [Into the Labyrinth]
It was that moment of total body rictus just before she would start to puke her guts up. From Wordnik.com. [Child Of The Hunt]
Lips drawn back in a rictus bared her teeth, and her bulging eyes seemed full of horror. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Producing his rictus grin when saying something negative being one of the milder errors. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Mr. Buddy-Wires was still swinging gently, a fearsome rictus of triumph on his dead face. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Urza's face was a rictus of concentration and pain, and he too was bleeding from the nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Also far less distracting: no rictus grin or boiled-egg face to put you off the arguments. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime Ministerial Debate; Newsbeat Leader Interviews; The Vote Now Show] Reference
If his rictus grin gets any wider, his dental work will jump out and clatter off the podium. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking: Hillary To Suspend Campaign] Reference
His responding grin was a rictus as he adjusted his shield and brought his own lance to bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
His open eyes bulged and his tongue hung out of his silently crying mouth in horrible rictus. From Wordnik.com. [Hacker - Death at the Member-Guest]
The smile was pure armour-plate, more a rictus of concentration than a signal of inner delight. From Wordnik.com. [Dogged by Cocaine Accusation,] Reference
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