The traditional symbol of Mecklenburg, the grinning steer's head ( Low German: Ossenkopp, lit.

In Belgium, where the Decadents and Symbolists were as numerous as their French counterparts, Félicien Rops depicted a grinning Pierrot who is witness to an unromantic backstage scene ( Blowing Cupid's Nose ) and James Ensor painted Pierrots ( and other masks ) obsessively, sometimes rendering them prostrate in the ghastly light of dawn ( The Strange Masks ), sometimes isolating Pierrot in their midst, his head drooping in despondency ( Pierrot's Despair ), sometimes augmenting his company with a smiling, stein-hefting skeleton ( Pierrot and Skeleton in Yellow ).

It had " the head of a frog, the grinning face of a giant elephant, thick short legs set off by huge claws, the back of a dinosaur, and a long tail with spears at the end ".

" At one point, the prosecutors " froze the film as a grinning, slender white man with a bulbous nose, wavy hair and a cigarette dangling from his mouth — unmistakably a grinning young Bobby Frank Cherry — was seen slamming his fist into the minister's head after pulling what appeared to be a set of brass knuckles from his back pocket.

Carigiet designed the Cabaret's logo, a grinning cornichon ( gherkin ) with a carrot-nose, and from 1935 to 1946 he created often parodistic costume and set designs for ten of the Cornichon ’ s programs, including a heavily decorated barrel organ used by his brother Zarli who was also a member of the Cabaret ’ s ensemble.

The term is derived from 16th century Portuguese and Spanish cocos, meaning " grinning face ", from the three small holes on the coconut shell that resemble human facial features.

As his true nature is revealed, the mask changes from a pleasant appearance to a demonic one, and finally to a grinning skull.

The second time the chorus is sung in the single version, the second line becomes " Or let the eagle tell you where he's been " from the original " Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned ," likely because the latter phrase refers to imagery in the movie of a fictitious constellation which resembles a bobcat.

Ron Grable, writing in Motor Trend in May 1992: " As the engine sprang into a muted rumbling idle, it was impossible to keep from grinning.

One of his other trademarks was to chop food frantically with a sharp cleaver while grinning to camera, which used to elicit a round of rapturous applause from the largely American audience.

However, the illustration was considerably different, showing a grinning devilish-looking humanoid with pointed ears and chin that closely resembled the Green Goblin except for the tusks sprouting from its cheeks.

The play ends with Trevor recovering from the pain and grinning, as the warders shut the door of his cell.

It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players.

A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.

He was seeing, somehow, the face of a young boy, the boy Simms Purdew must once have been, a boy with sorrel hair, and blue eyes dancing with gaiety, and the boy mouth grinning trustfully among the freckles.

There was an assertive maleness in his grinning refusal to pick them up.

In the morning the grinning President-Elect, Harry S. Truman, was photographed holding a newspaper bearing this headline.

Maximilian also gave a bizarre jousting helmet as a gift to King Henry VIII – the helmet's visor featured a human face, with eyes, nose and a grinning mouth, and was modeled after the appearance of Maximilian himself.

According to Brewer's dictionary, " The phrase has never been satisfactorily accounted for, but it has been said that cheese was formerly sold in Cheshire moulded like a cat that looked as though it was grinning ".

Often appearing between segments was Mr Cheeky Chappie ( Jit Loi Chong ), wiggling his spectacles and grinning.

Accordingly, the very first thing that he saw, on entering a village of Hyrcania, was the carcase of a, large wolf, which had been shot just half an hour before his arrival, and which looked terrible in death, " grinning horribly a ghastly grin ;" thus proving the truth of the poet, that, " every where the pleasures of the chase may be enjoyed ," if such may be termed pleasures.

A grinning Peter Lorre caricature in the front row comments, " I haven't seen such a beautiful bubble since I was a child.

This particularly concept was simple enough to outstrip the temptations of grinning, saying ' Yeah!

Critic Nick Schager wrote, " It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big ' Batman ' fan, as his star-making screen debut in Kiss of Death as grinning, cackling psychopath Tommy Udo ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination ) seems heavily indebted to the Caped Crusader's arch-nemesis The Joker.

I wrote that ', and they looked back around and they looked at each other and started grinning, and it turns out that their squad car, you know their partnership, it was two guys, it was an Anglo and a Hispanic, and it turns out, they're called Pancho and Lefty .. so I think maybe that's what it's about, those two guys .. I hope I never see them again

A similar grinning face was featured on Steeplechase Park signage.

Thanks to its iconic wall murals, including two grinning fun faces known as Tillie, the Palace was one of the most identifiable buildings on the Jersey Shore.

" He thought grinning was " no doubt a habit gained by formerly being a baboon with giant canine teeth ...

An optical illusion, the painting depicts what appears to be a large grinning skull.

An optical illusion, the painting depicts what appears to be a large grinning skull.

He turned grinning to his companions, saying: I'll show them at home tomorrow what sort of ears a Vlach priest has!

In response he painted Victory Girls, an impression of American soldiers, pig-like, grinning and clutching the meager frames of young women in bawdy red lipstick, as if possessions or prizes of war, representing a clear confusion as to what war actually reaps.

While Entertainment Weekly critic, Ken Tucker, praised Sevigny, he said Williams had overdone her character's " grinning eagerness to be naughty ".

Having counter-signed the immunity, Del is asked one final time by Slater who had stolen the microwave, to which Del replies " I did " grinning and pointing to the signed immunity form.

Michael had made his debut in the ring at 17, as " Coconut " and his sister Helen as " Cocotina " (' cocos ' being the Spanish word for grinning face and applied to the coconut because of the three marks on its shell ).

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Charles said, grinning, showing his huge yellow teeth.

`` I'll show you '', Hearst replied, grinning.

According to Daum, after this first successful delivery, " Kennedy, who fiddles a bit with his suit jacket, is grinning like a boy who has just pulled off a coup.

Clark has a small tattoo of a red seal, sitting up on its hind flippers " grinning impudently ," on his forearm.

Why not call the police ", placed next to a picture of a grinning policeman.

The OED states: " Portuguese and Spanish authors of the 16th c. agree in identifying the word with Portuguese and Spanish coco " grinning face, grin, grimace ", also " bugbear, scarecrow ", cognate with cocar " to grin, make a grimace "; the name being said to refer to the face-like appearance of the base of the shell, with its three holes.

He is Legba's twin, and as such often plays the trickster, impersonating his brother or following behind him, nullifying his deeds ; he is the uncontrollable force of bad luck, grinning as he throws everything around him into disarray.

There are many reports that Carroll found inspiration for the name and expression of the Cheshire Cat in the 16th century sandstone carving of a grinning cat, on the west face of St. Wilfrid's Church tower in Grappenhall, a village adjacent to his birthplace in Warrington, Cheshire.

* In DC Comics, the New Goddess Malice Vundabar, niece of the villain Virman Vundabar, resembles Alice and controls a carnivorous creature called Chessure that looks like nothing more than a grinning face.

A series of multilingual and colorful brochures, titled " Deutschland ", advertised Germany as a peaceful, idyllic, and progressive country, on one occasion even portraying the ministry's boss, Joseph Goebbels, grinning and hamming in an unlikely photo series of the Cologne carnival.

" With these last words, the Dodger suffered himself to be led off by the collar, threatening, till he got into the yard, to make a parliamentary business of it, and then grinning in the officer's face, with great glee and self-approval.