Page 712

'He hesitated, then she saw a faint smile that touched only his lips, not his eyes, the kind of smile from which one contemplates - with longing, bitterness and pride - a possession purchased at an excruciating cost; his eyes seemed directed, not at her, but at the girl of that time. "Underground, in the Taggart Terminal," he answered.'

Page 705

'Galt turned and looked at him for a moment, not answering. She could not identify the emotion that softened the lines of Galt's face: it had the quality of a smile, of gentleness, of pain, and of something greater that seemed to make these concepts superfluous.'

Page 694

'She noticed that Danneskjold was studying Galt's face, as if he, too, found the incident inexplicable. Galt held his glance, deliberately and openly, as if challenging him to find the explanation and promising that he would fail. She knew that Danneskjold had failed, when she saw a faint crease of humour softening Galt's eyelids.'

I've gone for the look with the faint crease of humour here, but it should still incorporate the challenging and promising holding of Danneskjold's glance as well.

Page 686

'He saw her looking at him, her glance half-question, half-hope'

Page 665

'...and she saw him looking at her as if he knew what she felt - she saw him seeing in her face the realization that it was he who had walked out of Danagger's office, that day. His face gave her nothing in answer: it had that look of respectful severity with which a man stands before the fact that the truth is the truth.'

In case it's not clear, I'm doing the man's face here, not the woman's.

Page 644

'He smiled, as if grasping a full confession of the meaning she attached to his name; the smile held an adversary's acceptance of a challenge - and an adult's amusement at the self-deception of a child.'

Page 643

'He was looking down at her with the faint trace of a smile, it was not a look of discovery but of familiar contemplation - as if he, too, were seeing the long-expected and never-doubted.'

Before this line there's actually a very detailed description of his face which I considered doing, but decided it was describing more permanent facial qualities, rather than an expression, and therefore not really possible. I do apologise that my face doesn't convey this character's 'look of a ruthless innocence which would not seek forgiveness or grant it', and that my eyes don't impart a 'superlative value to myself and to the world'.

Page 621

'They all looked at her with an air of inquiring expectation, as she approached. The unnatural pallor of the moonlight seemed to dissolve the differences of their faces and to stress the quality they all had in common: a look of cautious appraisal, part fear, part plea, part impertinence held in abeyance.'

Obviously I'll never quite capture this without getting out into the moonlight, but I've always felt that the unnatural pallor of my room brings out my impertinence when it's held in abeyance, at least at this time of evening.

Page 616

'"Yes..." He was looking off, as if at some sight which he had studied for years, but which remained unchanged and unsolved; his face had an odd, questioning look of terror.'

Page 603

'She glanced at the conductor. She saw nothing in his face except the blind malevolence of pain, of some long-repressed anger that broke out upon the first object available, almost without consciousness of the object's identity.'

Page 576

'The "feudal serf" of Taggart Transcontinental was the only one who seemed untouched by the disaster. He looked at Taggart with the lifelessly conscientious glance of a scholar confronted by a field of knowledge he had never wanted to study.'

Page 566

'He was fighting to regain control, there was almost a touch of apology in his smile, the apology of a child pleading for indulgence, but there was also an adult's amusement, the laughing declaration that he did not have to hide his struggle, since it was happiness that he was wrestling with, not pain.'

Page 565

'When she was close enough and she could distinguish his face, she saw the look of that luminous gaiety which transcends the solemn by proclaiming the great innocence of a man who has earned the right to be light-hearted.'

The next line actually mentions that he's smiling and whistling, so this picture is probably wrong. It was hard enough to do as it is though, so let's be reasonable.

Page 487

'Dagny's mouth showed a faint line of astonishment and of contempt.'

The way I read this (given the context), Dagny is being courteous and polite to another woman (specifically, her lover's wife), so apart from this hint of her emotion in her mouth, the rest of her face is more socially appropriate. So I'm trying to localise the astonishment and contempt to my mouth only.

Page 476

'He smiled, not looking at her; it was a mocking smile, but it was a smile of pain and the mockery was directed at himself.'

Page 417

'He waited to see what advantage Francisco would take of it now, but Francisco obeyed him in silence, with a smile that had an oddly boyish quality: a look of triumph and gratitude, together.'

Page 405

'What Dr. Ferris was seeing in Rearden's face was the look of luminous serenity that comes from the sudden answer to an old, dark problem, a look of relaxation and eagerness together; there was a youthful clarity in Rearden's eyes and the faintest touch of contempt in the line of his mouth. Whatever this meant - and Dr. Ferris could not decipher it - he was certain of one thing: the face held no sign of guilt.'

Page 345

'She saw the relaxation of an invisible smile in his eyes'.

Page 340

'There was a strange look on the man's face: bewilderment as if he had no conception of the issue confronting him, and fear, as if he had always had full knowledge of it and had lived in dead of exposure.'

Page 197

'The look on her face astonished him more than all the rest: it was a look of defeat and yet of an odd, sly, cynical cunning, as if, for a moment, she held some worldly wisdom that mocked his innocence.'

There may have been some of these earlier in the book. I think I'd already half noticed them, but this one was very memorable, and drove me to actually folding the corner down on every page where I find one.