Humor put a telltale twinkle in his eyes long before the lopsided smile began.
Dean tried to isolate the sound, looking frantically in all downward directions, trying to see a trace, a telltale puff of smoke in the gathering dusk.
The telltale unsightly lumps and bumps plague plus-sized soccer moms and bantamweight supermodels alike.
It 's the varying of the counter 's bets that is the telltale sign that a player is possibly counting cards.
And the pain will usually be accompanied by the two telltale symptoms of a compartment syndrome - numbness and weakness.