mien

I can’t tell you how he sounds to an Italian, but I was bowled over by Mr. Pine’s woozy, defeated mien.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

Referring to his dour mien and predilection for charcoal gray garb, Rand called him her “undertaker.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

It brings me no pleasure to report that Trump possessed the perfect mien for the performance of wrestling.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

It captures some of the inquisitive humanity that Steinmetz, a tall and direct people’s person with a John Malkovich mien, conveys in life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

But despite his mien of seriousness and inapproachability, Bronstein was friendly, animated, and liked by virtually all the other players, owing to his cordiality, immense knowledge of the game, and a certain intellectual eccentricity.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The events of the past week have shocked countries with typically pacifist miens, as well as those more closely aligned with Russia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2022

The cheerful, demonstrative callowness of Herring’s Joey makes for an apt-enough contrast with the miens of the older figures, and Carpenter’s Mark is a sensitive, thoughtful foil to everyone else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2015

Here were traditional outsiders, some of them outspoken victims of childhood bullying, who, twenty years ago, were dismissed by the jock establishment for bringing their alternative fashion sense and disaffected miens to an Olympic-style competition.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014

Yet while they never quite eradicate their masculine miens and mannerisms, they never feel more truly themselves than when they’re wearing women’s clothes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2014

Their manners and miens reflected the Spartan personal discipline the organization demanded, and none of them would utter anything but Nation of Islam cliches.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey