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  • Vintage for guys also comes in the form of heavy-browed frames, like those seen on the ad guys on TV's Mad Men as well as John Lennon-inspired wire styles, and preppy, tortoise shell frames.

    Put new style into your eyeglass wear this fall 2011

  • Everyone who actually got within hollering distance of the animal agrees that the black was a wild horse so unlike any other that he might have been thawed from some Ice Age bog, a large, ferocious, predatory carnivore of the sort that once filled the nightmares of heavy-browed men shivering in caves and squabbling over hunks of burnt mastodon.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • The heavy-browed, sultry-voiced Scott graced 22 movies, primarily film noirs made between 1945-57 in which she played one of the genre's most babe-o-licious troubled women.

    VOICES THIS WEEK: Shoup, Levine, Seed, Frank 2010

  • Everyone who actually got within hollering distance of the animal agrees that the black was a wild horse so unlike any other that he might have been thawed from some Ice Age bog, a large, ferocious, predatory carnivore of the sort that once filled the nightmares of heavy-browed men shivering in caves and squabbling over hunks of burnt mastodon.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • Everyone who actually got within hollering distance of the animal agrees that the black was a wild horse so unlike any other that he might have been thawed from some Ice Age bog, a large, ferocious, predatory carnivore of the sort that once filled the nightmares of heavy-browed men shivering in caves and squabbling over hunks of burnt mastodon.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • As different as we were, we were all recognizably alike, with the same unruly hair, the same heavy-browed, smiley eyes and all our invisible resemblances, born and bred.

    'How It Ended: New and Collected Stories' 2009

  • Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie (Dark Horse Books) offers a sneak peek at the menagerie of mutants primed to swarm the world-weary demonoid, portrayed again by the heavy-browed Ron Perlman.

    Straight to Hellboy: Translating a Dark World From Sketch to Screen Hugh Hart 2008

  • The heavy-browed 40-foot long Eocarcharia dinops, or "fierce-eyed dawn shark," was likely the main predator as its powerful claws and teeth could tear limbs and flesh off its prey.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • He has a heavy-browed, gangly-armed grace that reads as both boyish and weary, and his subtle expression of Curtis's rage makes other films 'guitar-smashing, bottle-throwing displays seem sloppy and false.

    How to Act as If You’re in ‘Control’ 2008

  • Hellboy II: The Art of the Movie (Dark Horse Books) offers a sneak peek at the menagerie of mutants primed to swarm the world-weary demonoid, portrayed again by the heavy-browed Ron Perlman.

    Straight to Hellboy: Translating a Dark World From Sketch to Screen By Hugh Hart 2008

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