What's the difference between languishment and mien?

Languishment


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of languishing.
  • (n.) Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While it is true that Clinton’s favorability rating is languishing among all voters, her favorability among Democrats is as robust as Biden’s, at nearly 75% .
  • (2) But life is very difficult now.” Urmani motions to the river opposite, languishing green and motionless.
  • (3) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
  • (4) He had a lot more fire in him than I think that I’ve seen.” Bush has nonetheless found himself spiraling from a once-presumed nominee to languishing in single-digits, as his former ally Marco Rubio has risen as a viable alternative for the Republican establishment.
  • (5) China remains a key challenge for Nokia, with its market share languishing at 3.5%.
  • (6) We are continuing to see heart wrenching reports of sexual abuse and assault, self-harm and hopelessness of refugees detained on Nauru and Manus Island with over 2,000 people left to languish in detention,” Szoke said.
  • (7) We've said, in relation to young people, we shouldn't be letting them languish out of work.
  • (8) He spent a lot of the year languishing outside the top 10, failing to beat any of the players above him, and in November he suffered a humiliating 6-0, 6-1 defeat to Federer in front of a London crowd at the 02 Arena.
  • (9) Read more If Africa continued missing out on the full benefits of its mineral wealth by exporting its resources in their raw or semi-raw form, said Mugabe, people would remain unemployed and languishing “in extreme poverty”.
  • (10) A decade ago, Glasgow languished as " the murder capital of western Europe ", with rates of knife crime and homicide more than double those in London, but its homicide rate has fallen by a third since the early 2000s, and violent crime is also decreasing.
  • (11) Schools languished too long in that situation, and that’s one reason why the Labour party first brought in the academy model: to help such schools.
  • (12) Holland, who are languishing in fourth in Iceland’s qualifying group, have 1,138,860.
  • (13) One example: over three days last week we tried to find a scarce bed for a mentally ill and highly distressed 17-year-old languishing for far too many hours in an A&E department.
  • (14) Now, millions of working people who would otherwise be languishing in abject poverty depend on these tax credits.
  • (15) Perhaps he had thousands of works by forgotten artists he couldn't sell languishing in storerooms.
  • (16) She said as prime minster, she had achieved major reforms that had languished under Rudd, including putting a price on carbon, a tax on the mining and resources industry, a national broadband network and health reform.
  • (17) Her gladiatorial, win-every-day, with-us-or-against-us style was aimed at one thing: dragging the Coalition’s primary vote up from where it was languishing at the time, 35%.
  • (18) It is unconscionable that she languished in prison for years while those allegedly implicated by the information she revealed still haven’t been brought to justice.” But the commutation was condemned by leading Republicans.
  • (19) After languishing in third place for much of the campaign , the Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau - son of former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau - seem set to return to power.
  • (20) He didn’t languish in movie jail like Mickey Rourke; he didn’t fall off the map for a decade like Dennis Hopper.

Mien


Definition:

  • (n.) Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .
  • (2) This study shows that the Mien integrate traditional healing beliefs and practices with the use of American health services.
  • (3) A cohort of 119 Mien refugees living in Richmond, California, was observed for a 6-month period.
  • (4) However, the effective use of medication for somatic complaints, along with the continuing recognition of Mien health beliefs in psychosocial treatments, allowed for the development of a trusting doctor-patient relationship and continued psychiatric care.
  • (5) After patient education and a discussion of problems and benefits of medicine, compliance improved with Vietnamese and Cambodians but not with the Mien.
  • (6) This report describes treatment over a period of 6 years of Mien refugees from highland Laos in the Indochinese Psychiatric Program of the Oregon Health Sciences University (Portland, OR).
  • (7) Two case histories are presented which describe symptom presentation, health belief systems and therapeutic issues involved in treating Mien patients.
  • (8) James Mason plays Smiley (renamed Charles Dobbs) with the same bespectacled, hang-dog mien he wore in Georgy Girl the same year, making for one of the best Smileys so far.
  • (9) They coincided with the growing confidence the player has in his coach Ivan Lendl, a court-side fixture these past nine months whose mien might frighten the ball-kids but encourages the Scot to reach for his full potential as he sheds, almost by the week, some of that psychic collateral.
  • (10) This report describes our clinical experience with Mien refugees in the Indochinese Psychiatric Program of the Oregon Health Sciences University.
  • (11) The highest seroprevalence to HHV-6 was noted in the Chinese (33%) and the lowest in the Laotian hilltribes, the Mien and Hmong (14%).
  • (12) MIEN, on the other hand, had only a slight effect on total blood lipids, and appeared to be ineffective or negative with respect to the other lipid parameters.
  • (13) His appeal was his guileless mien and a left hook that terrified opponents two and three stones bigger than him almost as much as his easily sliced eyebrows shocked sensitive onlookers.
  • (14) The Mien, a Southeast Asian hill people, have immigrated to various countries throughout the world since the mid-1970s.
  • (15) To determine the prevalence of use of traditional health practices among different ethnic groups of Southeast Asian refugees after their arrival in the United States, we conducted a convenience sample of 80 Cambodian, Lao, Mien, and ethnic Chinese patients (20 each) attending the University of Washington Refugee Clinic for a new or follow-up visit.
  • (16) A cross-over trial was run to compare the effects of two delayed-action nicotinic acid polyesters (pentaerythritol-tetranticotinate, PETN, and inositol-hexanicotinate, MIEN) in 59 aged normo- and dyslipaemic subjects.
  • (17) Coining and massage were used by all groups except the Mien, whereas moxibustion and healing ceremonies were performed almost exclusively by the Mien.
  • (18) The illness patterns, medical beliefs, and health care behavior of a Southeast Asian refugee group, the Mien from Laos are described in this study.
  • (19) While both actors were attractive – Gless the cool blonde, Daly with her strong, serious mien – they also looked like ordinary women.
  • (20) You can't imagine she would have had much truck with Red Ed's carefully moderated statesmanship, for example, still less with Nick Clegg's funeral tie and mournful mien.

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