moue

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

Dern is in devilish form, right down to the little moue of sympathy that she gives when Nicole says, “I don’t want any money or anything.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019

Reznak set the head on a satin pillow at the king’s feet, then scampered away, his mouth twisted up in a moue of distaste.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

When he walks, he moues like an Engine, and the ground shrinkes before his Treading.

From Coriolanus by William Shakespeare