Sabat saw the monkey-like face uplifted, relief kindled in those sunken eyes, an old man suddenly realising that all was not lost, muttering unintelligible thanksgivings, pledging his continued devotion to evil powers.

Out of its open neck, on an impossibly thin stem, rose the head of Max Greaves, its face uplifted toward Miss Johnson.

He walks home slowly, his face uplifted to the photons flooding down from the stars, and he counts them one by one.

The Gnome stood before his subjects, his wizened yellow face uplifted, his small hands extended, holding in offering a long bowl of glowing embers.

He leaned back against the damp wall behind him, his face uplifted, vulnerable to Danan's searching.

Brother Dorian stood, face uplifted, exhausted but exalted, immobile.

He strolled down Twenty-third Street with an atypically loose stride, his face uplifted to the path of heaven.

When the great crystal chandelier finally burst into brilliance, Louise Gable was standing with her hand on the switch, her face uplifted anxiously, listening for something she dreaded to hear.

"Jim, I mean it," she whispered, edging an inch nearer him, her white face uplifted, her dark eyes unreadable in their eloquence and mystery.

She bloomed there, golden-haired and lovely in her long yellow dress, and there were two men sitting at her feet, their faces uplifted to her, the plates on their laps forgotten.