| Of course all meals come with a side of rice, chow mien, and your choice of an egg roll or soup. |
| All customs and immigration officials we met smiled at Rebecca and stamped our passports with a happy mien. |
| And the traces of this absurdity are visible in the mien of our politicians. |
| 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. |
| Where people had personalities, identities and individual miens, this being just held fear. |
