His mien is that of the contemptuous guerrilla fighter, mixed with that of a truculent teenager.
Mary Woolnoth has a threatening mien, as though its fortresslike walls were needed to withstand dangerous pressures.
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For someone with such a pugilistic public stance, Malaysia's fourth prime minister has an almost gentle private mien.
Though he left New England when he was only seven, Chouinard still retains the unimpressed, dismissive mien of a flinty Mainer.
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My regal mien proposed to passersby that I was a delusionary eccentric.
Lean, soft-spoken, and unassuming, Hytner has the crisp mien of a banker.
People connected with Robot Rachel, whose friendly mien was hard to resist, proved by the curious colleagues who left their desks and trailed the rolling bot, Pied Piper-style.
The backroads of Cheshire are a bit different than the a frozen arctic plain, but their narrow mien and endless curves proved prime fodder for the new GTC.
He is smart enough to know that people don't want to see him goof around they come to witness the refined mien, the sublime ground strokes, the buttery cross court volleys.
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If you feel as if your expression of emotion is causing your workmates to disrespect you, explain your supposed weakness as I often did when my professional mien tripped over anger at yet another workplace injustice.
Add to this a dour mien, high divorce rate, chronic drug problem, and page after page of shrinks listed in the phone book, and you begin to wonder whether Switzerland's claim to the highest living standard in the world can be justified.
Nor have more recent immigrant groups such as the Hmong, Thai and Mien, who came to work in the fields during the 1970s and now live in Central Valley cities such as Stockton, Fresno and Modesto or, of course, the Mexicans, who have been coming since then and are now the majority of workers in the fields, where Spanish is the common language.
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