noun
definition
Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
definition
A specific facial expression.
Examples of mien in a Sentence
Nikos has the mien of a young Greek monk and the young Greek monk wants it back.
Those taking part in processions are to walk bare-headed (weather permitting), two and two, in decent costume, and with reverent mien; clergy and laity, men and women, are to walk separately.
She was not pretty, but it was obvious, even to Dean's untrained eye, that her attire, hair do, makeup and whole mien did not evolve from the poor side of the tracks.
The supreme test, satisfied so frequently as to be commonplace, was a shocking form of suicide performed with a placid mien.
As he is thus lamenting, a woman appears to him of dignified mien, whom he recognizes as his guardian, Philosophy.
No man was more negligent in his dress and habit and mien, no man more wary and cultivated in his behaviour and discourse.
How the Saracens, when they took him prisoner, he being half dead with a complication of diseases, kindly left him "un mien couverture d'ecarlate" which his mother had given him, and which he put over him, having made a hole therein and bound it round him with a cord; how when he came to Acre in a pitiable condition an old servant of his house presented himself, and "brought me clean white hoods and combed my hair most comfortably"; how he bought a hundred tuns of wine and served it - the best first, according to high authority - well-watered to his private soldiers, somewhat less watered to the squires, and to the knights neat, but with a suggestive phial of the weaker liquid to mix "si comme ils vouloient" - these are the details in which he seems to take greatest pleasure, and for readers six hundred years after date perhaps they are not the least interesting details.