Perched on her seat, timid as a sparrow, she takes a look around at her fellow passengers.

BBC: On holiday in North Korea

Moamal just sat silent, opening his mouth like a little sparrow from time to time as a U.S. soldier fed him from an MRE (Meal-Ready-to-Eat) pack.

CNN: 's Karl Penhaul

Here he's earnestly ordinary as mild-mannered Walter Sparrow, a pet detective (well, OK, an "animal control officer") who becomes obsessed with a pseudonymous self-published novel, "The Number 23, " by Topsy Kretts.

CNN: Review: '23' is a bad number

As the deposed pirate captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp does not so much walk as sashay into a scene, and he wears more eyeshadow than Tammy Faye Bakker.

NEWYORKER: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Their corpses were then displayed as a warning, like the three whom Jack Sparrow salutes early in the first Pirates film.

NPR: Pirates 101: Fact and Fiction on the High Seas

He is especially adept at hesitation, cocking his head like a sparrow and speaking hurriedly to others, as if trying an idea out on himself.

NEWYORKER: Ring Cycle