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The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.
The cover of Angry Johnny and the Killbillies' album, Hankenstein , shows Hank Williams drawn like Frankenstein's monster; the cover of a Bloodshot alternative-country anthology called Hell-Bent parodies a famous photo of a grimacing, emaciated Williams in an Alabama jail.
When moaning, groaning, and grimacing accompany the agitation and restlessness, they are frequently interpreted as physical pain (90).
His grimacing convict in Great Expectations seemed less in need of food and shelter than of a swig of Maalox.
Read the book to learn what he's thinking and feeling, because all Gorris gives us is a guy grimacing on a couch and a lot of distant explosions to signal his flashbacks.