Moon-faced, mannish and with the shoulders of a hod carrier, Leila (Kaarina Hazard) is not your average movie heroine.
In a program consisting of little but highlights, others were offered by Samuel E. Wright in "Lost in the Stars," Keith Thomas and Michelle Robinson in "Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed" and Mark Linn-Baker in "Tchaikovsky".
On horseback in the paintings by David or the Baron Gros, or enthroned by Ingres, Napoleon may look moon-faced, and the little ringlet that dangles above his eye may seem dandyish, but the last thing he looks is short.
The moon-faced girl with the blank expression and the downcast eyes is painted larger than life, her face almost unpainted, a plane of primed canvas, as though her life, too, was an impenetrable vacancy.
But, as a rule, stuff is not OK when it's been worn by "moon-faced Mischa Barton" or "wild child Pixie Geldof" because they both look well smacky and thus render all sorts of nice clothes unwearable.
Lenore is moon-faced and perspires.
Alex was fleshy and moon-faced, with thinning hair.
Degas's 1867 drawing of the wistful, moon-faced Mme.
"Growing up, I was a moon-faced, milk-fed pudgy Midwestern boy".
"Yes," echoes Nazwa, a moon-faced man whose houseboat we are staying on.
