The 'miserable smile' is a stoical grin-and-bear-it expression – a slight, asymmetric smile with an expression of deep sadness pasted over the top.
Grimace can sometimes be used, or the smile may be described as rueful.
Flat affect is a condition that causes people to not express emotions in the same way other people might. For example, when a person without flat affect is happy, they may smile brightly or in some other way show that they're pleased.
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness. “her melancholic smile” synonyms: melancholy sad. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
noun. mel·an·chol·ist. -lə̇st. plural -s. archaic : a person in whom black bile is the predominant humor.
Instinctively we have always known that certain music and art reflects a sense of melancholy. While many people try to avoid it, there are those of us who embrace the beauty that can only be expressed and understood through melancholy. It is an emotion often explored by artists inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites.
The Charismatic Complex Smile
A complex smile lives up to its name. It's the most complex smile style, and it's also the most rare, found in only about 2% of people naturally. A complex smile combines the movements in both the other smile styles and adds to it a simultaneous lowering of the lower lip.
A wistful smile typically has gently upturned lips into a soft, closed-mouth smile, accompanied by a look of sadness behind the eyes.
The hallmark of smiling depression is sadness. The smile and external façade is a defense mechanism, an attempt to hide their true feelings. A person could be experiencing sadness about a failed relationship, career challenges, or lacking what they view as a true purpose in life.
A person with a sad expression on their face conveys a potent message. Drooping eyelids, downcast eyes, lowered lip corners, and slanting inner eyebrows have an arresting effect on observers.
The half-smile, a technique used to relax your body and mind, helps you feel calmer and better accept the reality of stressful situations. Half-smiling involves relaxing your face (from your forehead down to your jaw and chin) and turning your lips upwards into a tiny half-smile.
Sometimes your face can look sad when inside you feel perfectly happy. Aging can cause a down-turned mouth, droopy outer eyebrows and sagging cheeks giving your face a sense of sadness. It's possible to improve this with safe, simple non-surgical treatments, requiring a 30 to 60-minute appointment.
rheumy. adjective. literary rheumy eyes look red and wet because of illness, sadness, or old age.
This underlying emotion doesn't necessarily have to be a negative one — Ekman identified a “dampened smile,” which signals that a person is trying to hide the intensity of the positive emotion that led them to smile, which can manifest in ways akin to a masking smile.
Dolphins aren't smiling.
Dolphins may look like they're happy to us, but their “smiles” are illusions. When humans smile, we signal happiness, contentment, and enjoyment to each other. But a dolphin's toothy grin is not an expression of joy – this is simply an anatomical anomaly.
A bittersweet smile is such a smile that is arousing pleasure tringed with some sadness or pain. It's like in the instance: "bittersweet memories of my far childhood" SanneT.
You might describe your brother's sharp-toothed smile as slightly lupine, worry about your sister's lupine habit of howling at the full moon, or admire your dog's noble lupine profile. The adjective lupine comes from the French word of the same name, with Latin roots: lupinus, "of the wolf," from lupus, "wolf."
1. Julia Roberts. There is no doubt about the fact that this gorgeous woman, 57, is the Queen of Hollywood Smiles.
He has a cheek scrunched-up toothy smile that makes him look like an adorable bunny or so Army likes to call his signature 'Bunny Smile'.
Smiles are typically considered more attractive when this line is symmetrical and curves upward from the front teeth toward the molars in the back of your mouth.
3 – Sadness Connects Us All
In sadness they see a unifying vulnerability that they can relate to and grasp. They feel that being with others in their grief and struggles brings them closer and forms a deeper bond. “I am attracted to sadness. I want to listen to people who are sad, and I want to feel it myself.
Melancholy often rings with a sense of beauty or serenity in the face of sadness.
Melancholics are loyal, steadfast, stoic, and pragmatic. Highly emotionally intelligent, melancholics have an astute and shrewd perspective on their mental state as well as the emotional state of others.