ABSTRACT
Scorn and disdain, as well as sneering and defiance, may be displayed by a slight uncovering of the canine tooth on one side of the face; and this movement appears to graduate into one closely like a smile. The most common method of expressing contempt is / by movements about the nose, or round the mouth; but the latter movements, when strongly pronounced, indicate disgust. Extreme disgust is expressed by movements round the mouth identical with those preparatory to the act of vomiting. The tendency to retch from a fetid odour is immediately strengthened in a curious manner by some degree of habit, though soon lost by longer familiarity with the cause of offence and by voluntary restraint. English men are much less demonstrative than the men of most other European nations, and they shrug their shoulders far less frequently and energetically than French men or Italians do.
