Posted on 10/24/2013 4:36:15 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
mien (meen) noun
Appearance, bearing, or demeanor.
Example sentence:
"Everyone Nanako Coates greets walks away smiling. But beyond that exuberant, youthful mien is a seasoned veteran with years of professional experience in the restaurant business."
--Eizo Kobayashi; Daughter Follows in Family's Culinary Tradition; Oakland Tribune (California); Sep 17, 2013.
Etymology:
Probably a shortened form of demean (to conduct oneself in a specified manner), influenced by French mine (appearance). Earliest documented use: 1522.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
i like what i ordered her better, i think.
They weren't. Should they have been?
I am just back from meeting my dear nephew for lunch. He was in his Army fatigues and someone treated for his lunch. Very sweet. It’s happened every time he comes to my area of town to go eat with us.
I just remember that mean girls wear pink on one day of the week. I couldn’t believe the leader of the pack was Irene from Sherlock Holmes.
Good to know that there are places that have people with an abiding respect for America.
LMFAO.
Russell Brand, goes on the BBCcalling for more CORP taxes, and redistribution,
While he’s sitting on (an unjustified, by a decent account of his talent/works) 15 mil, and his ex wife (same description) even more.
Write a check or STFU
He is a nutcase and his ex is just as crazy.
Crazy is ok. A news organization asking his views, without asking, where he lives, how much he has banked, and when he is giving it all up, not so much.
She’s bitter and has had too much cosmetic surgery. I can’t tell her apart from Bob Costas. A+ for you.
They just issued an alert on the tap water back home. The wife is boiling away.
Egads, thats a pota.
Yes. First time this has ever happened to me.
Well, it’s not personal yet. I am in Louisiana till tomorrow night.
I had a good day. Made $80 at the casino down the street.
Judging by the billboards you see driving here from Texas, casinos must be a major industry here.
That and petrochemicals.
what caused the boil water advisory?
I don’t know. I got an email from work advising us not to use the water there.
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