mien

Efforts to replicate the former president’s mien can also risk coming off like imitation—or, worse, parody.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

Squinting in the morning sun, she had bat ears, a downturned mouth and the mien of a pissed-off mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Schaeffer, who has the mien of Marine drill instructor, is animated and intense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

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

Her mien wavered from severe, when she watched the men loading the wagons, to smiling when she spoke with a girl standing nearby.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Played with hangdog miens by the gifted Mr. Dossett and Mr. Sills, these men soon betray their bosses and switch sides.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2016

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

Instead sharp beaks, rough-hewed black feathers and wary miens define the latest creations from Handspring Puppet Company: crows, a far cry from the majestic title creatures in “War Horse,” a hit here and on Broadway.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012

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