moue

Example Sentences

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Her sleepy, bedroom gaze, articulated by the swoop of her liquid eyeliner; her bright red moue; and that beauty mark were the star’s own creations, conceived with her longtime West Coast-based makeup artist, Whitey Snyder.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024

Harper is haunted, and Buckley conveys her anxiety with wide, darting eyes, or twisting her mouth in a moue.

From Salon • May 20, 2022

Its single eye has clearly seen something no mortal eyes were meant to see, and the little moue of its mouth makes it clear that it liked it.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2021

What is beyond doubt is the scheming suavity with which Huppert arms her character; seldom has the famous French moue been put to such withering use.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016

Aarfy winked encouragingly and jerked his thumb back toward McWatt with a humorous moue.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller