How To Use Moue In A Sentence
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Sophy snatched at the doll petulantly, and made what the French call a moue at the good man as she suffered her grandfather to replace her on the sofa.
What Will He Do with It? — Complete
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His typical facial expression is to set his mouth in a moue, somewhere between a pucker and a pout.
Terry Krepel: Newsmax Gets Trumped
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Up he came, whom Charlotte welcomed very demurely, and so left us, saying that she must go about her household business; but as she departed she cast a look back at me, making a "moue," as the French say, with her red lips.
A Monk of Fife
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Angliæ; ad quam omnes supplices confugiunt, incrementum omnium rerum et actionum Serenitatis vestræ beatissimum, exitusque foelicissimos à Creatore omnipotente optantes, mutuáque et perpetua familiaritate nostra digna vota et laudes sempiternas offerentes: Significamus Ser. vestræ amicissimè; Quia sunt anni aliquot, à quibus annis potentissima Cæsarea celsitudo bella ineffabilia cum Casul-bas, Principe nempe Persarum gessit; ratione quorum bellorum in partes alias bellum mouere noluit, ob eamque causam in partibus
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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Between her half-frozen ears and flushed cheeks, a battle between a hopeful smile and an exhausted moue idled at a stalemate.
The Fugitive Waits
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Elaine met Sam's eyes, made a plaintive moue, and let herself be swept into the building, since there seemed to be no alternative.
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Pro hac arena venitur per aquas, et per terras, et exportatur manibus et vehiculis propè et procul, et quantumcúnque de die exhauritur, repleta manè altero reperitur: Et est in fossa ventus grandis et iugis, qui mirabiliter arenam commouere videtur.
The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Wang Guangqi was a postiue social activist of radical democratism during the May Fourth Mouement period.
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Miss Osborne frowned, her lips pursing in a quick moue of distaste, obviously unsure whether she was being ridiculed.
Earl of Durkness
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‘Well,’ said Lady Jedburgh, making a little moue as she rose from the sofa, ‘if I am not to be allowed to go on the stage, I must be allowed to be part of the audience at any rate.’
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She made a little moue and rubbed her crotch area.
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Goring gives Milland something of a moue, and says: ‘Yes?’
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And first I shall shewe the occasions that moued this cruell bloodshedder, enemie of our holy Christian faith, Sultan Soliman, now being great Turke, to come with a great hoste by sea and by lande, to besiege and assayle the space of sixe moneths, night and day, the noble and mightie citie of Rhodes, the yere of the incarnation of our Lord Iesu
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Duchesse his sister: who was so inflamed and moued with choler, as shee duste not lift vp her eyes for feare least vpon the sodayne she should bee perceyued: whiche eyes sparkeling sometymes with greate yre, resembled properlye twoo starres of the night, that shoote forth their brightnesse vpon the earth, when all thinges be in silence.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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From wandring _Stygian_ shores, where it doth endlesse moue.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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And first I shall shewe the occasions that moued this cruell bloodshedder, enemie of our holy
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
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_EP_ II v 15-16 'quoque magis moueare malis, doctissime, nostris,/credibile est fieri condicione loci' reads oddly; something has probably been lost from the text after the hexameter.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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5 Materiam illamvacuanribusclementer/per dcie£tionem, fi phlegmone fimam hepatis partem obfidet: vel fi gibbam, mouenubus tib. 13.meth; vnnam, fi pauca eft vtrobiq; materia: G enim multa, ctiam per inteftina eft fufpe&a purga - tio Galeno, Caffia igitur, manna, & rhabar - bariinfufumbilem (fiabundat) vacuadofunt falubria, quia non trahunt a longmquo, nec materias exagitando ad fluendum incitant.
Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio, certa methodo comprehensa, ex ...
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Norma Clarke notes Boswell's automatic semi-salaciousness with, it very much seems, a moue of disappointment, and it is hard not to see why.
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Semper enim est, quoniam "semper" praesentis est in eo temporis tantumque inter nostrarum rerum praesens, quod est nunc, interest ac diuinarum, quod nostrum "nunc" quasi currens tempus facit et sempiternitatem, diuinum uero "nunc" permanens neque mouens sese atque consistens aeternitatem facit; cui nomini si adicias "semper," facies eius quod est nunc iugem indefessumque ac per hoc perpetuum cursum quod est sempiternitas.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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I recall the teasing provocation of Joanne Pearce in Adrian Noble's 1989 production, or the mischievous moues of Victoria Hamilton in the last revival as she urged Solness to get out his pencil.
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Letous uatum pater et Semeleius Euhan; 220 hic mouet Ortygia, mouet hic rapida agmina Nysa. huic Lycii montes gelidaeque umbracula Thymbrae et, Parnase, sonas: illi Pangaea resultant
The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla
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The doctor could not help laughing at the sort of "moue" she made: when he laughed, he had something peculiarly good-natured and genial in his look.
Villette
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Dr. Beeks crouched in the center of the chamber, reaching out to touch something only she could see, then made a moue when her hand failed to connect.
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She made a moue that must have been quite fetching thirty or forty years ago.
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He remoued the archbishops see from Canturburie vnto Lichfield, thereby to aduance his kingdome of Mercia, as well in dignitie & preheminence of spirituall power as temporall.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
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HABET, the reading of most manuscripts, does not account for FERET, but is in itself acceptable enough; compare _Her_ XVI 59-60 'ecce pedum pulsu uisa est mihi terra moueri --/uera loquar ueri [_Heinsius_: uero _codd_] uix _habitura fidem_' and Cic _Flac_ 21 'sed fuerint incorruptae litterae domi; nunc uero quam _habere_ auctoritatem aut quam _fidem_ possunt?'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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He's grown his hair, which fooled me before, but now I recognise his arrogant moue.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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With a moue of disdain, she threw her only line of contact with Ruston Grady into the nearest waste bin.
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The 30 day the winde Southeast, they wayed, and set saile to the Northeastwards: but the ship fell so on the side to the shorewards, that they were forced eftsoones to take in their saile, and ancre againe, from whence they neuer remoued her.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The word seemed to twist his face into a moue of distaste. ‘My job is to make fabulous people feel fabulous.’
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Principe nempe Persarum gessit; ratione quorum bellorum in partes alias bellum mouere noluit, ob eamque causam in partibus Poloni� latrones quidam Cosaci nuncupati, et alij facinorosi in partibus illis existentes, subditos C鎠aris potentissimi turbare et infestare non desierunt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A Mrs. Konishi, whose own daughter had just gotten engaged (a love match), made a pretty moue of concern.
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Tereos. heu quantis lassantem bracchia uidi planctibus et prono fusum super oscula uultu! uix famuli comitesque tenent, uix arduus ignis summouet. haut aliter gemuit per Sunia Theseus litora qui falsis deceperat Aegea uelis.
To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father
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For the Christians of that place affirme that no true Christians ought to drinke thereof: and that without the said liquor he could not liue in that desert From which opinion, I could not for my life remoue him.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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I give them a little moue to indicate that I'm not looking forward to the occasion.
Our Merchant-Ivory Weekend
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She made a moue of distaste and raised a hand protestingly.
Chapter 20
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‘We're simply inundated with it,’ he said, with a prim moue of distaste comically identical to Dr. Ogawa's.
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Another aspect of Caravaggio's past persists in ‘The Young St John’ in the Borghese Gallery: a petulant urchin, speckled with sun-rash, and with an effeminate moue on his face as a ram curves and stretches against his pliant body.
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She does as she's told but with a little moue to indicate that she's not altogether happy with the arrangement.
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This is because the actress will have to do that hideous Renee Zellwegger pose to the cameras, when she turns her back to them to show off her exciting backlessness and make that annoying moue of an expression: Ooh, look at my back!
Golden Globes 2012 – as it happened
