this facial expression

http://i36.tinypic.com/2ldybup.jpg

http://renalfailure.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/2006108rr_santorum_concedepj_580.jpg

overlooked girl in the back most of all

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40535000/jpg/_40535185_les_dawson203.jpg

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/1410/gurnks6.jpg

I almost made this expression once in 1988

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i134/dgoobl/levonanddavidgoingtocamp.jpg

http://www.iamsporticus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/l-bows-torch.jpg

i think rueful is the official term for this facial expression.

― estela, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:43 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or 'tight-lipped'

― Bob Six, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:45 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

or 'frowny-faced'

see some of them are just frowny but some of 'em - first two especially - have a special puffed-out lips/cheeks thing goin' on which definitely implies rueful to me, or a more thoughtful kind of regret.

Petted lip

... no, that's not really it, "rueful" is closest

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii317/RabitesAngelatin/OldVet-MonkeysUncle.jpg

Heseltine fading fast...

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/cheney.jpg

http://www.hcoa.org/images/broadwick/8_MustacheGrimace_1993.JPG

http://images.chron.com/blogs/txpotomac/clemens%20on%20Jan.%207.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/jcrawmer/mcgwire.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45406000/jpg/_45406309_obama226.jpg

The flehmen response, pronounced [ˈflɛːmən or fleɪmən], also called the flehmen position, flehmen reaction, flehming, or flehmening (from German flehmen, meaning to curl the upper lip), is a particular type of curling of the upper lip in ungulates, felids, and many other mammals, which facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ, also called the Jacobson's Organ.

this is almost the facial expression represented by :-/

at least in my mind

I knew before opening this thread it would be this expression.

I fucking love this, there's just something about it...

i think people with no teeth have this look by default

i love a frown

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26158860@N00/3121944684/in/set-72157600063540550/

Bush finished his address to the nation, went back out through the doors, and the doors closed behind him and the national TV broadcast went off the air. And then after the live TV was off, the doors suddenly reopened, and he came back in to say goodbye to all the guests – his former cabinet members, his current cabinet members, Dick Cheney, his daughters, Laura and lots of other friends and supporters. He popped out that door, and when the door opened and he came through it, the look on his face was like no look I’d ever seen on George Bush’s face in my life. I actually flagged three versions as he comes through the door and his expression changes.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/23/opinion/reuters12a.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/23/opinion/reuters.12b.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/23/opinion/reuters.12c.jpg

And I turned to one of my editors — First I said, “Oh, my God.” And he said, “What?” And I said, “You’ve got to see this picture of Bush. This is really stunning.” And I flipped it over to him to process and his first reaction was, “Wow.” And I said, “If he wasn’t just back there behind that door crying, I don’t know what that look on his face is.” Because he just looks absolutely devastated as he comes through this door after essentially ending his eight year presidency. And it’s just really striking. He just looks absolutely devastated.

(The Bush Presidency in Photos)

this facial expression

taking it to the next level

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45427000/jpg/_45427672_blagap.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f108/ramon1986/BillCowher.jpg
hall of fame

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41298000/jpg/_41298212_cowher416.jpg

pulls off the rare muggy smile

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tcako3DupFU/SQhrQZ0tpSI/AAAAAAAAA6A/YI6DblTRgKc/s320/BillCowher.jpg

open mouth? falls just short but if anybody can do it...

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cG47t50d88uH/340x.jpg

the quick study

Two old blokes on my floor at work have this facial expression plastered on their faces. It's annoying but it also reminds me of this thread.

Here's a better one of Cowher:
http://stevelutz.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/cowher.jpg

(Taken from a blog post from last March in which the blogger says that there's a photo of Eliot Spitzer making the Bill Cowher face.)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/23/opinion/reuters4.jpg

http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/3/2/3/f_dasm_810b6c7.jpg

Hahahaha! MAAAAAAAAAAAN look at W's drunkie nose veins!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45278000/jpg/_45278701__45171312_clarkson_pa226b-1.jpg

supposed to be a steely gaze, none of this eyebrow wrinkle mediocrity

clarkson does not look sheepish tho

Clarkson's is more "I don't give a fuck"/"What's the problem?" rather than concerned/busted/disappointed.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2009/02/05/Rider460.jpg

WRONG

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/6907/hihihihiqv0.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/12/sports/12tejada.190.jpg

Nah, I'm going for 'RIGHT'. It's the rueful resignation - the intent behind the expression, that produces the the look - see Keegan third down.

Although quite what yer man above is feeling is beyond me.

rueful resignation

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/17/sports/baseball/17arod2-337.jpg

I think it should be called "scandalface"

Humming

clarkson one is all goofy "so what folks", v wrong, not this at all.

some great ones above tho. sometimes I do this expression when I walk out onto the street and it's cold or I'm hungover. also it can be used for when a friend says something sort of bad and you do it and maybe quickly dart your head to the side in place of a "yep". (a bit like the motion that might accompany a wink, if you were a cowboy)