mien

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

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

While Harding, 50, retains a boyish mien, he is anything but flashy and conveys a British reserve on the podium.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

The directors, called to an emergency meeting at the home of the chairman of the board of the American Steel Corp., have the haughty mien of British aristocrats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

He liked the community’s stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The events of the past week have shocked countries with typically pacifist miens, as well as those more closely aligned with Russia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2022

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