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It is typically used to describe a pouting expression or a grimace, often conveying discontent or displeasure. Example: "She made a moue of disappointment when she saw the results of her exam." Alternatives include "pout" or "grimace."
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Rough winds may blast thee, stress may take its toll And botox leave thy brow impervious; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines And oft thy sun-cream UV rays lets through; And every perfect pout at last declines Into a wrinkled spouse's sulking moue.
To recreate the just-bitten shade, King repeatedly squeezed lemon onto her own increasingly-tender moue, while a chemist faithfully copied it.
"I'm not one of those beeper people," Betty told us, with a moue of distaste.
Sandy held the page to her nose, and then looked at Caroline, who modelled a little moue.
"He had sheet music everywhere," she said with a moue.
Women writers may have a room of their own, but men who thrash around in front of the mirror and record their every failure, humiliation, moue, and excretion for an audience's consumption still own the house, even if all they do in it is lie on the couch — and then write about it.
Mr. Pardo's cottage is similarly reflective of his taste: he gutted it and then painted the whole thing white, adding a sleek kitchen and bathroom with much aluminum, glass and shiny white Corian, along with a blood-red Vladimir Kagan sofa shaped like a moue and a voluptuous silver Italian sideboard.
On Thursday, singing her long, nonrepeating songs without lyric sheets, she moved her mouth around restlessly, making a rictus and a moue, and sounding like four or five different people.
Simon Doonan of Barneys cited the infantile moue of the '60s and Blue Steel glint of the '90s and added, "Models have always made exaggerated facial grimaces of one sort or another".
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Oh, and then there's her mouth, which, in mid-moue, has a top lip that looks sharp enough to give you a paper cut.
Those who accept them are often the most talented.Since the firms are no longer run by their high-powered founders but by employees who rose through the same lifetime system, says Hidemi Moue, boss of Japan Industrial Partners, the private-equity buyer of Vaio, there is too little willingness to tackle these problems.
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