mona lisan

Example Sentences

• "On such occasions Tina Lerner’s smile is inscrutable—thoroughly Mona Lisan."
• "Many explanatory pages have been written on the meaning of this famous painting, and, provoked by its indefinable charm, its elusive suggestion, many an art student has brought the full power of his critical acumen to the task of finding suitable words for the description of the picture’s strange appeal. Each attempt has failed and each writer has dwelt with peculiar emphasis upon the qualities of the Mona Lisan smile."
• "Of course the New York man would not say just what anniversary of his birthday he was celebrating. Some long range guesses were ventured by Mr. White’s party, but each guess was met with that Mona Lisan smile that Everyman takes on when he does not care to explain."
• "They greet the boys every morning, smiling with Mona Lisan smiles."
• "But always, at the end of their discussions, his wife’s Mona Lisan smile seemed like a red-hot iron ever hovering to brand him with the scarlet letter of opportunism."
• "My dear, if I should say your eyes / Are bright as Rigel in the skies; / If I should say your lustrous hair / Is glorious more than high Altair / And that your simple, happy smile / Is of the Mona Lisan style; / Or that your graceful ruby lips / E’en Trojan Helen’s do eclipse; / And tell you, too—not just to please— / You’re fairer than the Naiades; / Said I such things, by ardor fanned, / I do not think you’d understand."