Exempel på mien

• Mei's reply was that although the earth was round, the middle land where the sages were born was situated on the "face" (mien, front side) of the earth.

• Whose else that motion and that mien?

• I am not alone in believing that such a development would be against the interests of anyone with a foreign accent or mien.

• We should look her in the face with friendly mien, but with posture erect and head held high.

• There are offices for which the best mien would not be selected by an open competitory examination.

• I could see by their whole mien that they were worn out and broken by the tremendous labour that had been imposed upon them in the beginning of this scheme.

• An inclination to keep his friends, and nowhere fastidious or the victim of manias but his own master in everything, and his outward mien cheerful.

• Verbruggen was considered a more natural, intuitive or careless actor, with a negligent agreeable wildness in his action and his mien, which became him well.

• Did the poised and confident mien of the beautiful actress mask a sick fear, night after night, that she'd miss an important cue?

• Suitable machines were transported from the deeper levels of the mien to the public area.

• He is described as a stalwart man of fierce mien, lithe and supple as a beast.

• Their vigorous and decisive mien was contrasted with that of politicians who were, by contrast, portrayed as vacillating and weak.

• His dignified figure, commanding respect, and his spiritual mien seemed to impress even them.

• Both in his mien and his looks, he is a man of masculine charm who inspires anyones admiration (41).

• In the first instance, while it is meaningful to speak of both losing and gaining "mien-tzu" it is meaningful to speak only of losing "lien".