moue
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Harper is haunted, and Buckley conveys her anxiety with wide, darting eyes, or twisting her mouth in a moue.
From Salon ● May 20, 2022
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
But who cares what unknown forces shaped her mouth into its magnificent moue?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2012
“Meet the new face of tranquility,” says the tagline above her miserable moue.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2011
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
"I wish somebody would love me," he moues to Martin Milner on a 1950 episode of Life With Father.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A dog of the house of Mountague, moues me Greg.
From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William
There's nothing mads or moues her more to outrage, then but the very naming of a wispe, or if you sing or whistle when she is scoulding.
From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John
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The Lingo of Body Language
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