mien

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

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

Referring to his dour mien and predilection for charcoal gray garb, Rand called him her “undertaker.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

In his cratered and ravaged mien we see the impress of time, yet also dignity and fortitude.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

It captures some of the inquisitive humanity that Steinmetz, a tall and direct people’s person with a John Malkovich mien, conveys in life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

In deference to the glad occasion, his foot kept the rhythm of the dance and his usually stem mien was softened.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

Played with hangdog miens by the gifted Mr. Dossett and Mr. Sills, these men soon betray their bosses and switch sides.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2016

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

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