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  • adverb In a glowering manner.

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  • adverb in a glowering manner

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Examples

  • Lista de Espera has a gleeful dance feel, Snakepath's ensemble part sounds like Art Blakey, Bilingual is a gloweringly funky vehicle for Hathaway's bass clarinet, and guitarist Stefano Kalonaris adds a rocky metal edge to the project.

    Time Zone: Crossing the Line – review 2011

  • Some hidden, some gloweringly all too revealingly present.

    One word-Dazzling - dfi 2009

  • And the student raged at me, both semi-silently and gloweringly in class, and in words, when the time came for my end-of-course evaluations.

    Reflections on the Role of Creative Writing in the Tragedy at Virginia Tech Erika D. 2007

  • And the student raged at me, both semi-silently and gloweringly in class, and in words, when the time came for my end-of-course evaluations.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Erika D. 2007

  • Marian Seldes modestly introduced herself and spoke for a minute or so, then handed over to Brian Murray, who gloweringly tore into an audience member whose cellphone had unfortunately rung at a particularly exposed moment at the end of Murray's performance of A Piece of Monologue another one of the Beckett shorts in the first half.

    Amazing recollections of Samuel Beckett Jenny Davidson 2006

  • You have enough to deal with just now, with Nan ill, and Morgan makes a gloweringly tender and surprisingly competent nursemaid.

    Dreaming of the Bones Deborah Crombie 1997

  • But Tom watched her gloweringly, and when she hopped up to him, teasing him about something, he spat some words at her and turned away.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • But Tom watched her gloweringly, and when she hopped up to him, teasing him about something, he spat some words at her and turned away.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • But Tom watched her gloweringly, and when she hopped up to him, teasing him about something, he spat some words at her and turned away.

    The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977

  • He took out his new cigar, turned it over and over gloweringly, and chewed it without lighting it, the right corner of his mouth vicious in appearance.

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

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