moue

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

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

In her trademark cat-eye glasses, with her bitter-lemon moue, Hoffman, as Moth, is comedy just standing there; Harada, as Mustardseed, a warmth machine.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2021

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

Here Dad would stop long enough to give his version of a depreciating moue, and hide his face coyly behind an upraised elbow.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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

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

A dog of the house of Mountague, moues me    Greg.

From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare