On his face, you could see his irritation at the senator's misrepresentations. He was answering the senator with his face.

[Bush confidante Karen Hughes explained the president's petulance this way, while acknowledging the presence of such petulance,] On his face, you could see his irritation at the senator's misrepresentations, ... He was answering the senator with his face.

Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chicken salad...

There's a little irritation in there.

She looked like a monk. You couldn't see her face.