Sentence examples for serious mien from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bashey, with his quiet, serious mien, never seems like a man drooling for material things.

Now 46, Ftorek has blond hair, blue eyes and a serious mien.

That, no doubt, explains Carell's serious mien: Foxcatcher marks a new development in his profile.

Signer, a forty-four-year-old Democrat with close-cropped hair and a serious mien, is a practicing lawyer.

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"The Iraqi people will support the removal of Saddam Hussein," declares a man of very serious mien, who is really just an actor.

Don't let their black robes, serious miens and pledges of fealty to the law fool you, Mr Frank warned: judicial decisions are not cool applications of objective legal principles.

For the most part, the vignettes performed here — and yes, they include the Dead Parrot and the Ministry of Silly Walks and the Spanish Inquisition — are delivered with a comic exaggeration that distances them from the originals, in which much of the pleasure came from the troupe's gravely serious miens.

So, too, did flashes of wit from beneath his sober mien.

Pale skinned, serious of mien, with tiny little Meissen china ears furled tightly against her tiny little Meissen china head, her brown hair scraped back into a bunch, her meager form lost in a baggy white T-shirt, Watson still looks younger than she is.

Over the years, few even approving commentators have remarked on what a funny book "Revolutionary Road" is, its black-on-black grimness and serious moral mien perhaps overmatching most critics' comic sensitivity about an era we normally don't think of as chock-full of laughs.