He flounced out of the government in March, but goes on glowering from the wings.

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Pickup trucks were being searched by government soldiers in black ski masks, glowering motorists frisked and questioned.

NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

Above, a curtain of glowering cloud was fat with the possibility of rain.

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And Jeannette was snorting like a bull and glowering at any interlopers.

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Where Mr Brown's glowering personality has obscured the talents in his cabinet, Mr Cameron lets George Osborne (the shadow chancellor), Michael Gove (his education spokesman) and others shine.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Ben Whishaw plays the glowering Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born among the fish stalls of eighteenth-century Paris, who follows his nose and becomes the assistant to a noted Italian perfumer (Dustin Hoffman).

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Heading back to pack our bags beneath those same glowering ancestors (who somehow now look less forbidding) we consider how the misadventure of an ill-timed traffic jam on the Bosphorus Bridge brought us to this hidden island paradise.

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Isabella Swan (Kristen Stewart), a lovely, slender, self-possessed high-school junior, moves to a new school in rainy Washington State and sees a tall, inordinately pale boy, Edward Cullen (the square-jawed Robert Pattinson), glowering at her in despair.

NEWYORKER: Twilight

In the afternoon, we rent a little local home in one of the prettiest backstreets, a tiny town-house filled with heavily lacquered antique furniture, glowering sepia photographs of ancestors and an aged television perfect for watching equally vintage Turkish soap operas.

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