Nothing defines the Senator from Kansas more than pride, which is most evident in Brownback's face by the frequency with which he manages a learned social smile at the same time that his lips are pressed together in anger. What's notable is that Brownback will engage in a Reaganesque echo, speaking of America as a "shining city on a hill" and yet he's not smiling when he does so. What is Brownback's other more common facial expression? It's when his eyebrows arch together and downward in what is in his case primarily a sign of concentrated impatience.