moue
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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
“I don’t know Prince Andrew,” Trump sighed with a moue, despite there being significant photographic evidence to the contrary.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2019
Aarfy winked encouragingly and jerked his thumb back toward McWatt with a humorous moue.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The first lady calls her “a menopausal toddler” — a description that Rachel Dratch, with her repertoire of cringes and moues, fully inhabits.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
They may make moues at gnus or gape at apes, gawk at giraffes, elephants and zebras capering au naturel, or goggle at performing beasts, birds and fishes of uncanny talent.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I wish somebody would love me," he moues to Martin Milner on a 1950 episode of Life With Father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tom stuck out his great chin, and looked at him with one of his quaint sidelong moues.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
To the world of beauties Nature lent, And in each beautie worlds of loues content, Wherein delight and state moues circuler, Pleasure being captaine to thy Hemisphere.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Paul William Miller
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