Posted on 01/26/2018 6:20:27 AM PST by Red Badger
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ric·tus ˈriktəs/ noun noun: rictus; plural noun: rictuses
a fixed grimace or grin. "Ned's smile had become a rictus of repulsion"
Origin: early 19th century: from Latin, literally ‘open mouth,’ from rict- ‘gaped,’ from the verb ringi .
A rictus is a frozen, fake smile. If the star of a play finds herself overcome by stage fright, she might forget her lines and stand, trembling, her mouth twisted into a rictus.
The word rictus most often describes a smile that doesn't convey delight or happiness — instead, it's a kind of horrified, involuntary grin. Your smile might freeze on your face in a rictus during a truly terrifying amusement park ride, or your discomfort as you watch your friend sing badly in a talent show might be reflected in your rictus of a grin. In Latin, rictus means "open mouth," from rict-, or "gaped."
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Nancy Pelosi has had so much plastic surgery that her visage has become a rictus as she cackles about “crumbs”.
They got nuthin!......................A+++!.................
As a kid in college, I watched *Firing Line* w/ a yellow legal pad; jotting down words I had never heard used before; and looked them up later. Often it was like listening to a foreign language. To get the *gist* of what was being said. :)
Greatest joy in watching WFB rip Gore Vidal a new one. And *Airborne* and *Atlantic High* were influential in my brother and me learning to sail and love Celestial Navigation.
On a lighter note, the WFTD on FR is a close cousin to Buckley. And William Safire can be mentioned fondly and reverently in the same breath. Icons of verbiage.
Nancy Pelousy has to be numero uno!.....................A+++!..................
Nancy Pelosi-her nose in the air
Steps up to lecture all about race-
Her new botox treatment freezing
That rictus of a smile on her face
She says it’s all about being white
A morsel of cheese is all we get-
Next she’ll tell us to just eat cake
As she channels Marie Antoinette
Just maintaining that frozen face
Costs millions-but she has the gall
To say a $1000.00 of in-hand cash
Is the merest of crumbs after all...
Excellent!.............A++++!.........................
Thank you!
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