At the center is the younger brother, Luke (an appropriately mercurial performance by Jo Stone-Fewings), whom Sir John (a credibly scary Christopher Godwin) has just bought out from debtors' prison, and who is treated as a servant by the "ladified" (Massinger's scathing neologism) mother and her ghastly girls (Lucy Briggs-Owen and Matti Houghton, who can mimic mama's moues with ease.) ❋ Paul Levy (2011)
In Billy Elliot the angular challenge of her face seemed entirely 20th-century and completely northern; yet here, where she never makes moues but appears simply to tilt different planes of her face towards the light, she looks utterly Plantagenet. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Alas, her performance was marred — at times, almost deformed — by the smiles, coy glances, moues, and haughty stares that chased each other across her face. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I just figured out who Jim Holt reminds me of, physically, and even in his facial moues. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
That's surprising to me, because even I was irritated with President Bush's smirks, winks, purses, and moues. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
Streep's performance is one of luminously diffident grief: full of moues, flushes, and hesitations in speech often unavailable on the page. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Her gestures, her poses, moues and attitudes were sensuous and suggestive. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Ten to one she was peering at herself in the glass, patting her curls and making moues, while Andriama was probably blabbing, and plot, alarm, and arrest were breaking out with a vengeance; Ranavalona's tentacles might be reaching out. through the city this moment, in search of me - I stamped and cursed aloud in a fever of impatience, and then strode through the open door at the sound of a female voice. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1977)
There were rows and rows of “gift” books about cats, cheek-by-jowl with Edwardian novels which, if opened, would be found to contain illustrations of young women in dust coats and motoring veils making haughty little moues at gladiators in Norfolk jackets. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1955)
There's nothing mads or moues her more to outrage, then but the very naming of a wispe, or if you sing or whistle when she is scoulding. ❋ John Earle (N/A)
Arte and good pollicie moues vs many times to be earnest in our speach, and then we lay on such load and so go to it by heapes as if we would winne the game by multitude of words & speaches, not all of one but of diuers matter and sence, for which cause the Latines called it _Congeries_ and we the _heaping figure_, as he that said ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
If it be for none of all these causes but vpon some sodaine occasion that moues a man to breake of his tale, then thus. ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
After a gulp or two and several _moues_ behind his back, she accepted him. ❋ Harry Hamilton Johnston (1892)
And she made him the drollest of little quizzical moues. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)
These include lines of dolls with names like Moxie Girlz and Bratz: "With their sultry expressions, thickly shadowed eyes and collagen-puffed moues, Bratz were tailor-made for the girl itching to distance herself from all things rose petal pink, Princess-y, or Barbie-ish," Orenstein notes. ❋ By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL (2011)
Increase the paine; griefe is not cur'd by Art. Ah! how vnkindnesse moues within the heart, ❋ Unknown (1621)
This reason then moues me, that as he is that same Deuill; and as craftie nowe as he was then; so wil hee not spare a pertelie in these actiones that I haue spoken of, concerning the witches persones: But further, Witches oft times confesses not only his conueening in the Church with them, but his occupying of the Pulpit: Yea, their forme of adoration, to be the kissing of his hinder partes. ❋ King Of England James I (1595)
