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Sentence Examples
| And the traces of this absurdity are visible in the mien of our politicians. |
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| Of course all meals come with a side of rice, chow mien, and your choice of an egg roll or soup. |
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| All customs and immigration officials we met smiled at Rebecca and stamped our passports with a happy mien. |
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| So, assuming the mien of a lion, I sit in the open, hiding my coward's heart. |
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| He had a unique-shaped nose that was neither large nor small and laugh lines around his interesting eyes that added to his playful mien. |
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| Open champion or not, he has the dignity of a true champion, the mien of a monarch. |
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| She's relaxed and friendly, and it's easy to slip into casual conversation and away from the professional mien if one is not paying attention. |
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| If I could finally hone the mien, I could probably pass for a member of the golf club. |
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| Yet, again, I could not escape that there was something about her eyes, something terribly alert and competent that defied her physical mien. |
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| Over in the camping section, even the humble water filter assumes an intimidating mien. |
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| Even as he gazed upon her fear-glazed features, a frown of recognition touched her mien, and it seemed to him then that he could hear her thoughts. |
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| On Saturday afternoon, as we were walking home from the river with Nik and Andy, I passed a bloke with purposeful mien carrying a cake in the shape of a dalek. |
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| Ever the courtier alert to the slightest imperfections in his outward mien, the Earl is accustomed to checking his physical appearance in the glass. |
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| One, with pipe in mouth and owlish mien, was the shade of Sir Edwin Lutyens, who after 1910 laid out the gardens in what had been a cattle yard. |
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| Quick-witted and fairly easy to train, it has a good voice and a cheerful, sociable mien, characterized by unstinting loyalty. |
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| Here were small men and women, seemingly perfect in every detail and of godlike mien. |
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| I am taking some small pride in my impassive mien when particularly hard gusts push the boat over further, or rogue waves wash through the cockpit. |
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| In the case of the CPA press conference you could see the disappointment on their faces and in their mien even if they asked a reasonable question. |
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| He delivers his declaration not with reckless bravado but with a dignified, quiet, middle-management-lifer assurance, in keeping with his general mien. |
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| Terror had still not uncovered to the full its beast-like mien. |
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| I was relieved to see his face slip into its impassive mien. |
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| His mien is fresh. He is nicely disposed and does some sport. |
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| This new restaurant may have the name of a strumpet, but it has the mien of a prim maiden aunt, with its marble-topped tables, dusky pink seats, cut-glass lustres, and ornately framed mirrors. |
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| Elegant, minimally clad mannequins view passersby with an arrogant mien. |
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| Apart from that being his natural mien, the main reason is that after several weeks cooped up in Tokyo, trudging through the streets at 3am to avoid the crowds and the fumes, he is bored out of his brain. |
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| Somehow, however, this Supermom and professional prodigy squeaks through most dramatic reversals with a cheerful and optimistic mien. |
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| Sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| An armed body of National Guards was haling to the Section headquarters a man of determined mien. |
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| I gave her a pat on the chin scarcely consistent with my aged and tottering mien and proceeded to shamble painfully to my room. |
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| There was in Albrecht's mien something which was new to Erna, and which affected her profoundly. |
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| However, I did my utmost to bear a cheerful and contented mien, for killjoy is but a poor friend. |
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| Among Europeans, and the aborigines of our own continent, a noble mien is not uncommon. |
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| Romanised in mien, he wants but the flowing toga and sandalled shoon to shine as a centurion. |
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| Then he got into the cab with the same mien as he would have ascended the scaffold. |
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| Kirkwood turned to meet her onslaught with a mien grave, determined, unflinching. |
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| It was his wife, Petronille, still young and passing handsome, but of atrabilious and harsh mien. |
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| There was something about this courier's mien and person that awoke a poignant memory. |
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| Jem Three, scuffing barefoot through the sandy soil, met this radiant dream-maiden with the exalted mien. |
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| Then bowing at the bhikshu's feet, with grateful mien, he wended homewards. |
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| Though her mien was in general haughty, she flattered Zenobia, and consummately. |
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| Then, heralded by an obsequious guard, came a great man, proconsular in mien and gait. |
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| He was a fine, tall, portly man, with a lion-like mien and a powerful voice. |
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| Her back was toward him, but the garb and mien proclaimed one, not a permanent resident of the village. |
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| Otrepiev was shaken by the tsar's manner, by the ferocity of his mien. |
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| And yet he stood in awe of that Virgin, so like a princess in her mien. |
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| At that Rabecque stepped towards them, very purposeful of mien. |
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| Beardsley cocked his head and listened, his mien almost beatific. |
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| Mother Hubbard began to look about her with the mien of a housekeeper. |
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| Finally Menelek restored quiet by the simple expedient of a frown, whereupon each loyal guest exchanged his mirthful mien for an emulative scowl. |
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| Abandoning everything to the greedy grasp of those around her, the mother darted, with distraction in her mien, to reclaim her child. |
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| He was a good stout knight, but sorrowful of face and downcast of mien. |
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| In the midst was seen A lady of a more majestic mien, By stature and by beauty mark'd their sovereign Queen. |
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| There I encountered a sacristan of about fifty, and a man dry and cold of mien. |
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| There was falling into his mien somewhat more of staidness and sobriety. |
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| They shuffled, pushed, had an irresolute mien and stolid faces. |
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| As he uttered these monstrous words, he assumed the mien of Ajax, expecting to see the lightnings descend upon his head. |
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| They were all tall, clean-limbed men, fierce and independent of mien. |
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| He desisted at last and looked back at us with a mien of anger. |
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| The words were barely uttered, when he encountered a savage of gigantic stature, of the fiercest mien. |
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| This self-praise he utters with a mien of ironic desperation. |
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| With shamefaced, submissive mien he sheathes the thin, gleaming blade. |
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| A man was introduced of simple mien, who had the appearance of a tradesman. |
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| But, is there not just a faint suggestion of smugness in her mien? |
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| His mien was that of the skulking, timorous, famished vagabond. |
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| Seeing the man gesticulate with imploring mien, and perhaps also recognising the officer who accompanied him, his Highness ordered his carriage to stop. |
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| His garmenture was that of the ordinary Malay boatman, but there was that in his mien and his attitude toward his companions which belied his lowly habiliments. |
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| I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien. |
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| When we love, by some noble method of our own or some nobility of mien or nature in the other, we apprehend the loved one by what is noblest in ourselves. |
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