It was no longer like the days of our parents and grandparents, or even just a few years ago, when campaign materials showed somber and unsmiling candidates running for office. Now, most seem like ...

She mentions one of an “unsmiling woman.” Exactly. It is difficult to think of another writer of Didion’s generation who did less to ingratiate herself with readers or the subjects she wrote about.

A photograph from the stiff occasion shows ambassador Rolf Pauls extending his credentials to an unsmiling president Zalman Shazar while Golda Meir and other Israeli ministers glare at the ...

In the beginning it was all slow and gentle. Sounds drifted into my awareness, gathering strength and definition: quick, light footsteps separated by the rustle of cloth, clicks and small thumps ...

The image — an unsmiling Trump sat in an ornate chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress — was shared by the official accounts of both the Republican and the White House.

The image — an unsmiling Trump sat in an ornate chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress — was shared by the official accounts of both the Republican and the White House. “There was quite ...