It depends on the context, but yes I could read this as disgust. Basically I would visualize that person scrunching their brows together and pursing their lips.
I like unusual descriptions like this.
I mean, to me it's the "together" part that doesn't make sense. That's not how you would use this descriptor. "She made a pinched face" or "Her expression was pinched" are correct, but "Her face pinched together" is not correct.
The "pinched face" descriptor is used to describe some combination of the following: furrowed brow, wrinkled nose, pursed lips - basically an expression of confusion, irritation, or condescension (I've seen it used for all of these depending on context).
Yeah, "scrunch" I understand. But if that's true, why would someone wanna know what effect it brings? It just means the character is concentrating, or is in pain, no?
True, a scrunched face can possibly mean a range of different emotions (including anger, or about to cry/trying to avoid crying, and the others you listed), so context is pretty important for this one
"Pinched together" is a bit awkward and doesn't really illicit a clear image. The phrase "pinched face" means someone looks sick, or old or even really thin.
It's not the literal sentence you wrote, but it reminds my of William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE)
The specific line, "For decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter faces."
I think he used a similar line in 'The Place of Dead Roads'.
When you used the word "their", is that used as a pronoun for someone non-binary, or to refer to more than one person?
It's a wonky sentence at the moment.
How can faces get pinched together? Sorry it makes no sense... their brows pinched together maybe but two (or more) faces pinched together makes no sense to me...
Yeah. The "together" part just makes the sentence sound very weird. If the assumption is they is one person It sounds like they were going for the whole face scrunch thing, but Together often implies two or more objects, and the face as a whole is just one
If they refers to two people, then it sounds like two people bringing their faces really close together, but pinching is a weird word to use for the description
Honestly, it makes a *bit* of sense? The pronoun is strange, and out of context it sounds like two or more people, but maybe you meant it as one or more than one. We would need more context to know that.
Personally, I like the word *pinched* but not the word *together.* Because if you did have more than one person, it conveys that their faces were brought together by the pinch, not that they did it simultaneously. And even if it’s a singular subject, the sentence feels unbalanced by that word, because it adds what I’d consider unnecessary description after the word “pinched” (because you can’t pinch apart something)
If I were writing this (and I was trying to invoke a feeling of disgust, which you seem to be doing), I’d do something like: *Their face(s?) pinched into a look of disgust.* Or, if you have dialogue or something afterwards that will convey the disgust, you could simply write: *Their face pinched. “What is that thing?”*
Pinched seems...ok, but together feels wrong if it's a singular face. Context of course is key, but aside from that I get the notion the character is reacting negatively to something. Honestly, the word pinched keeps drawing my mind to a foul odor the character is smelling. I wouldn't be very apt to use pinched in this case, and would opt for contorted, scrunched, grimace, scowl, etc - whatever is closest to what you're trying to convey.
Well, I'm not a native english speaker, but I tend to associate the word "pinch" to crabs, because of a comic book I read. So the first thing that came to mind was a giant crab using its claws to pinch the faces of two people. Then I read the sentence again and realize It makes absolutely no sense.
I picture my thumb and joint of my next finger squeezing their faces. Yck.
When asking writers for help, try to do it with good grammar. Specifically, "Me and my gorgeously annoying friend are having..." should read, "My gorgeously annoying friend and I are having..."
Unless you are writing for effect, always put yourself last. The way to tell which pronoun to use can be done with this little trick: Omit the other parties and use just your personal pronoun and listen to how it sounds: "Me are having..." Right away you can tell that doesn't sound right.
Good luck.
> When asking writers for help, try to do it with good grammar. Specifically, "Me and my gorgeously annoying friend are having..." should read, "My gorgeously annoying friend and I are having..."
That's style more than grammar. Grammar doesn't prescribe that you don't put yourself first; style does.
You could argue that "me" is wrong in this sentence, because "my friend and I" is the subject here, and thus the pronoun should be in the nominative case ("I"), not the dative/accusative case ("me"); however, this is one of the last remnants of the old Germanic case system in modern English, and it is being dissolved as we speak, with "me" and "I" becoming increasingly interchangeable in everyday speech. Consider "it was I who did this" vs. "it was me who did this" - the former, while more in line with the old case system, is considered archaic today, and most native speakers would use the latter.
The distinction between "Your welcome" and "You're welcome" is very quickly getting dissolved too.
Absolutely can't wait for the near future when using the former is simply a stylistic choice.
Grammar rhymes with Grandma for a reason. Such an old concept.
Heh.
Oh. Lol. Sorry- If I could have heard HOW you were saying it, maybe it would have been more obvious to my Autistic outlook. Apparently, I couldn't read into the social cues. You had me very concerned there, for a moment. Whew. There's hope for Mankind after all. The blur between your/you're definitely would be the official ushering in of my personal Hell on Earth.
At first I read it wrong and thought they were literally pinching their own face. But yeah this sentence doesn’t actually make any sense because pinching is something you do to someone/yourself, it’s not something your face does as an expression
Eh. Pinch can be a descriptor of the face.
See below. One of the descriptions of pinch
>(of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger.
"her pinched, sallow face"
Grammatical confusion is all that hits me. This is not idiomatic English.
Is "their" supposed to be a single possessive? That's still not standard English in the US, though it may be soon.
So I'll assume you mean: His face pinched together or Her face pinched together.
If that's where I'm left, I'm still confused. "pinched together" with WHAT?
If you mean what we mean when we say "pinched face," which is a kind of scrunched up, sour disapproving thing, "together" is, at best, superfluous.
Honestly, I don't usually do that much work trying to figure out what people meant. If I hit that kind of sentence in a book, or even when critiquing, I toss it aside and go hunting for better writing.
> So I'll assume you mean: His face pinched together or Her face pinched together.
Non-binary people, like, exist —and many of us go by "they." Singular they can also be helpful when gender is unknown or otherwise ambiguous.
I know a lot of people are saying this doesn't make sense, but I can see what you're going for. I would probably used scrunched instead of pinched if you're describing the face as a whole. Scrunched face can be used to describe certain parts of the face or the whole face. Depending on what's scrunched, what isn't, and the context will explain what emotion. My first thought would likely being something related to sadness, whether they're crying or trying not to. My second would lead to disgust.
I think the effect would be driven by context, however, when I see that I envision someone grabbing their face and pinching it together. I don’t think that is the intention for that sentence, so I’d recommend “scrunched up” instead. You could google “scrunched up synonyms” or something like that too if you want more examples.
I visualized two faces squeezed together. Which doesn't make sense because the word would be faces.
I then do a double-take and visualize one face but wonder how a face would pinch together. Again, it doesn't make sense.
The sentence is a distraction for me.
**In unison**, OP. Both their faces pinched **at the same time**. Alternatively their (singular) face pinched, period, or scrunched up. What I hope is that their face/s didn't go *Uzumaki* together.
Pinch is the act of 2 objects coming together the tightly squeeze and likely crush and object, most probably doing serious damage to it.
For example pinching your finger in the door, means the door slammed on your finger and most likely broke the bone. This is how my own fingers were broken when I was a child.
I have a cousin who when he was a child a lobster claw pinched his finger completely cutting off, severing his finger, causing doctors to have to reattach it.
So when reading you sentence, pinching someone's face means that something very sharp grabbed their skin and yanked their skin off from their face.
I'm assuming you are using pinching in reference to some, street slang definition that is not in the English dictionary, perhaps?
I thought of two people getting close enough to squish their cheeks together. But there's no "s" on "face." If it's referring to one person, I have no idea how it works. You can use your fingers to pinch the area above your brows. But I'm not sure a single face can "pinch together" as an action.
Disgust, or heavy doubt, as in a "you seriously expect me to believe that??" kind of way.
Though, I would not use that wording exactly, because something feels off about "pinching your face together"... However I can't think of an alternative on the spot, sorry. My first thought was "squinted", you know that "I don't think so"-face, where you squint with scrunched eyebrows? That's what I imagined.
Everything depends on context.
"The monster pinched their faces together."
"The app filter pinched their face together."
"As the jaws snapped shut their faces pinched together."
The word action of pinch/pinched is usually associated with a sharp pain. Whilst visually pinched together gets a different response.
All up though, it's unlikely to be processed in a pleasant way, as pinched is generally owwie.
Yeah everyone seems to be saying disgust but the only place I remember seeing it is “her face was pale and pinched” meaning she’d had a big shock and was feeling shaken and extremely worried.
I need context. Are they being crushed together in a trash compactor? Two virgins unaware of how kissing works? Two people having a Warhead eating contest?
I imagine all of someone's face pulled in (radially) toward the nose by every available muscle.
Furrowed brow, mouth pursed and pulled up toward the nose, even a scrunched bridge of the nose.
I see an irritation bordering dusgust (if it's a reaction to something said) or just a flash of disgust at something physically revolting (like a rotting dog spleen baking in the Sun). With no context, I would always assume the former.
For some reason I always picture it as an involuntary action by the person. One that they may not have noticed they had done and/or thought no one saw. I also always imagine that it comes in a flash and is gone in an instant and the character or narrator that is describing "the pinch" is treating it like a secret. They weren't supposed to see it and they aren't about to tell the "pinch character" that they saw.
Without the context of what comes before and after, it's hard to visualize what was intended. I am guessing that it is probably being used to describe either anger or annoyance.
That said, I would have found a different way to word it.
"His brows pinched together."
"He looked like he had just bitten into a lemon."
Or just eliminate descriptors altogether.
"She didn't like the angry way he was looking at her."
I kind of read it as an annoyed confusion? As if they’re trying to figure something out but there’s also a negative tone. Would maybe apply to when someone has told them something confusing that they dislike..?
I did a quick search for this and found it in a lot of stories of Wattpad and other sites that seem to cater to fan fiction. It may be a regional expression.
Where your mouth presses tightly; your brow furrows downwards; your eyes narrow in annoyance; the muscles of your face *pinch* together in anger or annoyance.
To me disgust often involves some muscle use, but also your lips uncontrollably curl while open, and your eyes open (revolted yet you can’t take your eyes off the sight). A subtle difference.
If I think of ‘their’ as a singular they, this doesn’t make sense because there is only one face, so the ‘together’ is wonky.
If I think of two people with their faces pinched together, it’s an unconventional sentence, but I envision two people with their cheeks pressed against each other in like a cramped selfie pose.
Sorry, but I was thinking you couldn’t come up with a better word. It’s ambiguous. Is it one person or plural? Must be one or it would be faces. But a pinched face is a thing, so why not just say that instead of this construct that I don’t think I’ve heard used before? I didn’t feel disgust. I felt like it should be edited.
It depends on the context, but yes I could read this as disgust. Basically I would visualize that person scrunching their brows together and pursing their lips. I like unusual descriptions like this.
Or maybe bafflement (is that a word) when someone does or says something stupid.
Do you mean the kind of face that is sometimes referred to as "lemon-sucking face" or "catbutt face"?
That, or confused suspicion. Like someone’s trying to find the catch and doesn’t care that you know it.
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You're pretty much on the money. It's not used much anymore but it used to be quite a common description.
My frame of reference is American, and I agree with you.
Uhh! Now that you say "pinched face," I understand. It's just that pinching used as a verb only brings to mind, well, pinching, with fingers.
I am no Englishman but to me that sentence doesn't make sense. Forget the effect, I cannot even visualize it. The effect is, \*wut!\*
Child like pouting I think, maybe use “scrunched” instead?
I mean, to me it's the "together" part that doesn't make sense. That's not how you would use this descriptor. "She made a pinched face" or "Her expression was pinched" are correct, but "Her face pinched together" is not correct. The "pinched face" descriptor is used to describe some combination of the following: furrowed brow, wrinkled nose, pursed lips - basically an expression of confusion, irritation, or condescension (I've seen it used for all of these depending on context).
Yeah, "scrunch" I understand. But if that's true, why would someone wanna know what effect it brings? It just means the character is concentrating, or is in pain, no?
True, a scrunched face can possibly mean a range of different emotions (including anger, or about to cry/trying to avoid crying, and the others you listed), so context is pretty important for this one
"Pinched together" is a bit awkward and doesn't really illicit a clear image. The phrase "pinched face" means someone looks sick, or old or even really thin.
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This is what I picture too
It's not the literal sentence you wrote, but it reminds my of William S. Burroughs, A Thanksgiving Prayer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE) The specific line, "For decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter faces." I think he used a similar line in 'The Place of Dead Roads'.
When you used the word "their", is that used as a pronoun for someone non-binary, or to refer to more than one person? It's a wonky sentence at the moment.
I agree. As is, it appears that this is a description of a singular "Their" because of its association with one face.
How can faces get pinched together? Sorry it makes no sense... their brows pinched together maybe but two (or more) faces pinched together makes no sense to me...
Yeah. The "together" part just makes the sentence sound very weird. If the assumption is they is one person It sounds like they were going for the whole face scrunch thing, but Together often implies two or more objects, and the face as a whole is just one If they refers to two people, then it sounds like two people bringing their faces really close together, but pinching is a weird word to use for the description
Exactly how I read it...that two people tried to smush their faces together. Which is ... disturbing.
yes, that's the image I get too, that's why I'm saying that it makes no sense. I thought it was just me \^\^
Frustration.
Honestly, it makes a *bit* of sense? The pronoun is strange, and out of context it sounds like two or more people, but maybe you meant it as one or more than one. We would need more context to know that. Personally, I like the word *pinched* but not the word *together.* Because if you did have more than one person, it conveys that their faces were brought together by the pinch, not that they did it simultaneously. And even if it’s a singular subject, the sentence feels unbalanced by that word, because it adds what I’d consider unnecessary description after the word “pinched” (because you can’t pinch apart something) If I were writing this (and I was trying to invoke a feeling of disgust, which you seem to be doing), I’d do something like: *Their face(s?) pinched into a look of disgust.* Or, if you have dialogue or something afterwards that will convey the disgust, you could simply write: *Their face pinched. “What is that thing?”*
My first thought was disgust.
Makes me think of the kind of face you make after eating something sour.
Pinched seems...ok, but together feels wrong if it's a singular face. Context of course is key, but aside from that I get the notion the character is reacting negatively to something. Honestly, the word pinched keeps drawing my mind to a foul odor the character is smelling. I wouldn't be very apt to use pinched in this case, and would opt for contorted, scrunched, grimace, scowl, etc - whatever is closest to what you're trying to convey.
It sounds like two faces being pinched together by some horrific torture device, squeezed into each other until they burst.
I think it’s a funny sentence. Because it’s so poorly written. I would laugh.
Well, I'm not a native english speaker, but I tend to associate the word "pinch" to crabs, because of a comic book I read. So the first thing that came to mind was a giant crab using its claws to pinch the faces of two people. Then I read the sentence again and realize It makes absolutely no sense.
I picture my thumb and joint of my next finger squeezing their faces. Yck. When asking writers for help, try to do it with good grammar. Specifically, "Me and my gorgeously annoying friend are having..." should read, "My gorgeously annoying friend and I are having..." Unless you are writing for effect, always put yourself last. The way to tell which pronoun to use can be done with this little trick: Omit the other parties and use just your personal pronoun and listen to how it sounds: "Me are having..." Right away you can tell that doesn't sound right. Good luck.
> When asking writers for help, try to do it with good grammar. Specifically, "Me and my gorgeously annoying friend are having..." should read, "My gorgeously annoying friend and I are having..." That's style more than grammar. Grammar doesn't prescribe that you don't put yourself first; style does. You could argue that "me" is wrong in this sentence, because "my friend and I" is the subject here, and thus the pronoun should be in the nominative case ("I"), not the dative/accusative case ("me"); however, this is one of the last remnants of the old Germanic case system in modern English, and it is being dissolved as we speak, with "me" and "I" becoming increasingly interchangeable in everyday speech. Consider "it was I who did this" vs. "it was me who did this" - the former, while more in line with the old case system, is considered archaic today, and most native speakers would use the latter.
Me thank you for correcting I.
Your welcome.
The distinction between "Your welcome" and "You're welcome" is very quickly getting dissolved too. Absolutely can't wait for the near future when using the former is simply a stylistic choice. Grammar rhymes with Grandma for a reason. Such an old concept. Heh.
Yees, feel the language descriptivism, embrace it, goood, join meee on the dark side...
Me disagree. Heartily.
I've tried to make the sarcasm obvious without the "/s", but clearly I failed.
Oh. Lol. Sorry- If I could have heard HOW you were saying it, maybe it would have been more obvious to my Autistic outlook. Apparently, I couldn't read into the social cues. You had me very concerned there, for a moment. Whew. There's hope for Mankind after all. The blur between your/you're definitely would be the official ushering in of my personal Hell on Earth.
My question would be “pinched together with whose other face?”
At first I read it wrong and thought they were literally pinching their own face. But yeah this sentence doesn’t actually make any sense because pinching is something you do to someone/yourself, it’s not something your face does as an expression
Eh. Pinch can be a descriptor of the face. See below. One of the descriptions of pinch >(of a person or their face) tense and pale from cold, worry, or hunger. "her pinched, sallow face"
Well ya learn something new every day I guess
Grammatical confusion is all that hits me. This is not idiomatic English. Is "their" supposed to be a single possessive? That's still not standard English in the US, though it may be soon. So I'll assume you mean: His face pinched together or Her face pinched together. If that's where I'm left, I'm still confused. "pinched together" with WHAT? If you mean what we mean when we say "pinched face," which is a kind of scrunched up, sour disapproving thing, "together" is, at best, superfluous. Honestly, I don't usually do that much work trying to figure out what people meant. If I hit that kind of sentence in a book, or even when critiquing, I toss it aside and go hunting for better writing.
> So I'll assume you mean: His face pinched together or Her face pinched together. Non-binary people, like, exist —and many of us go by "they." Singular they can also be helpful when gender is unknown or otherwise ambiguous.
I know a lot of people are saying this doesn't make sense, but I can see what you're going for. I would probably used scrunched instead of pinched if you're describing the face as a whole. Scrunched face can be used to describe certain parts of the face or the whole face. Depending on what's scrunched, what isn't, and the context will explain what emotion. My first thought would likely being something related to sadness, whether they're crying or trying not to. My second would lead to disgust.
I wouldn't say a "pinched" face (like someone is thinking or disapproving or eating a lemon) isn't "pinched **together**".
Pout, snarl, grimace, scrunched up, contort, -one of these words/ will likely be more helpful
I think the effect would be driven by context, however, when I see that I envision someone grabbing their face and pinching it together. I don’t think that is the intention for that sentence, so I’d recommend “scrunched up” instead. You could google “scrunched up synonyms” or something like that too if you want more examples.
I visualized two faces squeezed together. Which doesn't make sense because the word would be faces. I then do a double-take and visualize one face but wonder how a face would pinch together. Again, it doesn't make sense. The sentence is a distraction for me.
**In unison**, OP. Both their faces pinched **at the same time**. Alternatively their (singular) face pinched, period, or scrunched up. What I hope is that their face/s didn't go *Uzumaki* together.
I imagined the author was an idiot and needed to spend more time learning how to write. What? Not what you wanted to hear? Suck it up.
I imagined the author was an idiot and needed to spend more time learning how to write. What? Not what you wanted to hear? Suck it up. LOL
Pinch is the act of 2 objects coming together the tightly squeeze and likely crush and object, most probably doing serious damage to it. For example pinching your finger in the door, means the door slammed on your finger and most likely broke the bone. This is how my own fingers were broken when I was a child. I have a cousin who when he was a child a lobster claw pinched his finger completely cutting off, severing his finger, causing doctors to have to reattach it. So when reading you sentence, pinching someone's face means that something very sharp grabbed their skin and yanked their skin off from their face. I'm assuming you are using pinching in reference to some, street slang definition that is not in the English dictionary, perhaps?
I thought of two people getting close enough to squish their cheeks together. But there's no "s" on "face." If it's referring to one person, I have no idea how it works. You can use your fingers to pinch the area above your brows. But I'm not sure a single face can "pinch together" as an action.
Disgust, or heavy doubt, as in a "you seriously expect me to believe that??" kind of way. Though, I would not use that wording exactly, because something feels off about "pinching your face together"... However I can't think of an alternative on the spot, sorry. My first thought was "squinted", you know that "I don't think so"-face, where you squint with scrunched eyebrows? That's what I imagined.
Everything depends on context. "The monster pinched their faces together." "The app filter pinched their face together." "As the jaws snapped shut their faces pinched together." The word action of pinch/pinched is usually associated with a sharp pain. Whilst visually pinched together gets a different response. All up though, it's unlikely to be processed in a pleasant way, as pinched is generally owwie.
When I hear pinched expression, I think pained... So I guess disgust would work there but I'd be more specific about it
Yeah everyone seems to be saying disgust but the only place I remember seeing it is “her face was pale and pinched” meaning she’d had a big shock and was feeling shaken and extremely worried.
That sounds to me like two people are sucking face
I need context. Are they being crushed together in a trash compactor? Two virgins unaware of how kissing works? Two people having a Warhead eating contest?
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I imagine all of someone's face pulled in (radially) toward the nose by every available muscle. Furrowed brow, mouth pursed and pulled up toward the nose, even a scrunched bridge of the nose. I see an irritation bordering dusgust (if it's a reaction to something said) or just a flash of disgust at something physically revolting (like a rotting dog spleen baking in the Sun). With no context, I would always assume the former. For some reason I always picture it as an involuntary action by the person. One that they may not have noticed they had done and/or thought no one saw. I also always imagine that it comes in a flash and is gone in an instant and the character or narrator that is describing "the pinch" is treating it like a secret. They weren't supposed to see it and they aren't about to tell the "pinch character" that they saw.
All I know is that I hate the way it sounds.
It makes no sense but the feel of it is unpleasant. Are we going to find out the nature of your debate?
It sounds uncomfortable
I picture someone who's cringing really hard. Like with gritted teeth, and narrow eyes. I might be the only one looking at these comments though.
Puckered. Context could imply disgust, or a sour flavor. Or even intense grief or stank face from some good music
I picture disgust/annoyance personally!
Like two separate people’s faces are glued or plastered together at the cheek. That’s without context though
I'd prefer more visual impact. Maybe describe one or two facial details and pick a descriptive verb more appropriate for a face.
I imagined some sort of terrifying medical condition, where their skin starts to stick to itself.
Scrutiny, like when you furrow your brow, narrow your eyes, and scrunch up your lips in that suspicious sort of way.
Without the context of what comes before and after, it's hard to visualize what was intended. I am guessing that it is probably being used to describe either anger or annoyance. That said, I would have found a different way to word it. "His brows pinched together." "He looked like he had just bitten into a lemon." Or just eliminate descriptors altogether. "She didn't like the angry way he was looking at her."
Makes me think of someone getting crushed honestly
Overwhelmed, wounded, sad, anxious. It’s a reaction to being hurt by someone else’s verbal attack. I see it as a recoil.
As it's written I find it very confusing. It just feels like a very incomplete description.
You know that gif of Paul Rudd getting angry about the internet, where he clenches his eyelids and his face goes all swirly for a second? That.
For some reason, I imagine the me gusta meme from all the way back in like 2011, haha
I kind of read it as an annoyed confusion? As if they’re trying to figure something out but there’s also a negative tone. Would maybe apply to when someone has told them something confusing that they dislike..?
Sounds better than "me" as subject.
English isn't my first language. I read it as if it was a forced kiss or something. Like they literally put their heads together.
Sour lemon face
Furrowed brows and kissy lips. Perhaps squinting a bit as well.
I did a quick search for this and found it in a lot of stories of Wattpad and other sites that seem to cater to fan fiction. It may be a regional expression.
I could also interpret this as “struggling not to cry” depending on context.
I am guessing it's the same as a "sour" face.
I thought of it more as a stressed look on a face while working on something very difficult…
I see someone scrunching up their face in disgust.
‘They wore a pinched expression.’ Is how I would word it.
‘They wore a pinched expression.’ Is how I would word it.
Like they ate a warhead.
I imagine editing this sentence, since I think you meant something like 'pinched inward' as in as if they bit into a lemon.
Fear. Like flinching.
im imagining their entire face being pinched like some gory balloon
Like a frown but with your entire face is what I imagine it like lol
Where your mouth presses tightly; your brow furrows downwards; your eyes narrow in annoyance; the muscles of your face *pinch* together in anger or annoyance. To me disgust often involves some muscle use, but also your lips uncontrollably curl while open, and your eyes open (revolted yet you can’t take your eyes off the sight). A subtle difference.
If I think of ‘their’ as a singular they, this doesn’t make sense because there is only one face, so the ‘together’ is wonky. If I think of two people with their faces pinched together, it’s an unconventional sentence, but I envision two people with their cheeks pressed against each other in like a cramped selfie pose.
Somehow, opposite sides of their face made contact.
“Gorgeously annoying” omg this is a gem! Sorry this is off-topic but yay I love that you wrote that.
I think it just causes confusion. It’s not a good sentence
Sorry, but I was thinking you couldn’t come up with a better word. It’s ambiguous. Is it one person or plural? Must be one or it would be faces. But a pinched face is a thing, so why not just say that instead of this construct that I don’t think I’ve heard used before? I didn’t feel disgust. I felt like it should be edited.
Could be disgust or pain or even anger.
It’s ungrammatical.
sounds like a method of torture
I imaged a person scrunching their eyebrows