The phrase "wan face" is not a correct part of a sentence in written English.
It is not an idiomatic phrase. If you meant the phrase "wanting face," as in looking or feeling disappointed, then that phrase would be more correct. Example: She had a wan face after hearing the news.
But while thinking of Apple or Facebook or even the 2008 Obama campaign calls up certain aesthetic associations or shorthand imagery, WikiLeaks mostly brings to mind the image of Assange's wan face and silver hair.
But the proud smile on his wan face disappears with a question from his daughter.
Deeply affected by the untimely death of his mother (when he was 5) and his 15-year-old sister (when he was 14), he devoted his early artistic efforts to painting their predicament and the ravages of tuberculosis, "…the wan face in profile against the pillow, the despairing mother at the bedside, the muted light, the tousled hair, the useless glass of water" (1 ).
In an area behind the chutes where cowboys gather before their rides, wan faces watched a replay on a television screen.
The pictorial style is reminiscent of the once fashionable Franco-Japanese artist Foujita, and indeed the wan faces of the sad protagonists have an oriental cast.
For the audience, who cannot help but feel exhausted by the severed limbs, wan faces, and cockroach jello feasts of the proletariat, this comes as a breath of freshly perfumed air, albeit one that we breathe with the guilty notion that we're falling into the very trap that led to the train's staggering social-stratification.
They could barely keep a straight face as they made a wan case for "regional differences," as if the vast cultural disparities among horseplayers in Nassau, Queens and Suffolk counties justified a corporation for each.
/ How silently, and with how wan a face," Sir Philip Sidney wrote, in one of his most famous sonnets — Walcott celebrates instead the circumambient blackness, turning it by the power of metaphor into a beautiful, bejewelled woman.
/ How silently, and with how wan a face," Sir Philip Sidney wrote, in one of his most famous sonnets Walcott celebrates instead the circumambient blackness, turning it by the power of metaphor into a beautiful, bejewelled woman.
This was the period of Rosso Fiorentino's feverishly sensual Biblical scenes, of Tintoretto's cinematically swirling crowds and battles, of the wan, gaunt faces of El Greco.
Law Wan-tung faces 20 charges in the landmark case, including inflicting grievous bodily harm, assault and criminal intimidation.
