“All of the customs and immigration officials smiled at Rebecca and stamped our passports with a happy mien.”

“All customs and immigration officials we met smiled at Rebecca and stamped our passports with a happy mien.”

“So, assuming the mien of a lion, I sit in the open, hiding my coward's heart.”

“Where people had personalities, identities and individual miens, this being just held fear.”

“The coy miens worn by the quartet didn't help matters: it's all pretend, darling, they seemed to remind.”

“And take note of the servers, mesmerizing in their blunt efficiency and mismatched miens.”