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Discover LudwigThe phrase "firm mouth" is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to describe a person's facial expression and is often used to imply determination or a refusal to give in. For example, "She had a firm mouth, signaling her unwillingness to back down."
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He has a strong, firm mouth, and brown eyes that frequently glare.
Soper got a description of the suspect: a woman of about forty, tall, with a buxom build, blond hair, blue eyes, and a firm mouth and jaw.
His features were good a straight nose, firm mouth, broad forehead, from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar of his well-fitting frock coat.
He concedes to Panofsky's view, observing a "thoughtfulness on the high, wrinkled forehead, visionary force in the dreamy yet steady eyes, [and] a formidable strength of passion in the wide, firm mouth".
Even though interviewing Whit Stillman remains such a heartcrushing letdown that I can't think about it without my head rolling forward and a single marquise-shaped tear cutting to a firm mouth (but only one, so as to remain nu-WASP-appropriate), and even though Damsels in Distresswas exhausting, his fashion sensibility is so choice.
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She had a large, firm, masculine mouth and jaw; prominent, piercing, resolute brown eyes; and thick, coal black hair, growing unusually low down on her forehead.
Coin portraits of Cleopatra show a countenance alive rather than beautiful, with a sensitive mouth, firm chin, liquid eyes, broad forehead, and prominent nose.
I managed to catch only a glimpse of Taha's face before the executioner placed an oatmeal-colored sack over his head and body, but I shall never forget his expression: His eyes were defiant; his mouth firm.
She writes, "Its habit is to settle in a depression on the sea bottom and 'angle' with a rod-like appendage on its head (actually a part of the dorsal fin), thus attracting small fish to its gaping and ready mouth". Firm in texture, monkfish is sweet and delicious with a lobster-like taste.
But according to the Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR) Initiative, a scheme run by the London private equity firm Coller Capital, our mouths may be forced.
The firm set of her mouth in this photo fills me with retrospectively protective rage.
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