Mona Lisan

English Etymology From en Mona Lisa n. Adjective 1 Resembling or characteristic of the Mona Lisa. en A Cruel Prima Donna War Averted; Hostilities Aroused in Several Quarters by Berlin Story of Frieda Hempel as Metropolitan’s “Highest-Salaried” Woman Artist, but No Casualties Are Reported—Berlin Concert Season Opens with Dedication of Philharmonie Organ w:Musical America XVI 23 New York, N.Y. 12 October 1912 123 https://archive.org/details/sim_musical-america_1912-10-12_16_23/page/123/mode/1up?view=theater On such occasions Tina Lerner’s smile is inscrutable—thoroughly Mona Lisan. en Frederic J. Haskin The Restored Mona Lisa The Evening Star 19,532 Washington, D.C. 20 March 1914 10 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/332092562/ 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. en Archibald S. White Passes Birthday Here; Telegrams Made Known the Fact, but Discreet Silence Maintained by the Financier Woodland Daily Democrat https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/14773147/ Woodland, Calif. 26 March 1914 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124134131/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/14773147/ 24 January 2022 en Baxter Daily Citizen https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/376446346/ II 65 Baxter Springs, Kan. 26 February 1919 They greet the boys every morning, smiling with Mona Lisan smiles. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124132430/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/376446346/ 24 January 2022 en Adele S[teiner] Burleson Every Politician and His Wife Philadelphia, Pa. Dorrance and Company, Inc. 1921 167 https://archive.org/details/everypolitician00presgoog/page/n183/mode/1up?view=theater 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. en Elmo P. Abbiati To a Simple Love New York Tribune LXXX 27,100 26 January 1921 8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/186658551/ 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. en Rachel Swete Macnamara Marsh Lights Boston, Mass. w:Small, Maynard & Company 1925 74 https://archive.org/details/marshlights00macn/page/74/mode/1up?view=theater “Do swear if you like, my dear man,” she said with that faint elusive smile so characteristic of her, which those who admired her called Mona Lisan and those who did not, sly. en Rupert Hughes Section 213 w:The Commercial Appeal CXXXII 53 Memphis, Tenn. 22 February 1936 13 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/769210046/ She sat with a Mona Lisan smile, purring inaudibly and savoring the spicy future that had opened for them. en w:Mari Tomasi w:Like Lesser Gods Milwaukee, Wis. The Bruce Publishing Company 1949 13 https://archive.org/details/likelessergods0000toma/page/13/mode/1up?view=theater She was silently forming thoughts behind that Mona Lisan mask, and now she put them into speech. en The Prairie Schooner https://books.google.com/books?id=vlAQAAAAIAAJ&q=Mona+Lisan XXIV 1950 168 You would never think, till you looked back, we had travelled thirteen terrible miles up a narrow, gravelly, tortuous track, while the world fell away in sheeted green and hills became Mona Lisan smiles of multiple, fantastic mien; en w:Clive Sansom Dorset Village https://books.google.com/books?id=UOpJAAAAMAAJ&q=Mona+Lisan London Methuen & Co. 1962 72 Their smile is human, and for some queer reason / It is at once High Church and Mona Lisan. en Betty Billipp Quips and Quotes The Daily Sentinel LXVII Grand Junction, Colo. 15 September 1962 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/535899251/ Historians may seek the reason / For that smile called Mona Lisan, / But I should think that any fool / Could guess: her kids went back to school! https://web.archive.org/web/20220124130051/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/535899251/ 24 January 2022 en Hunton Downs Where Are the Girls of Yesteryear? What Sarong With the New Asia The Sunday Star-Bulletin & Advertiser Honolulu, Haw. 5 January 1969 A-14 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/271125497/ What matter if their eyes were mischievous, moronic or Mona Lisan. en S. E. B. Editor’s Journal The Times-Argus 73 224 6 December 1969 four https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/659517152/ Grieving this day at the death of a gentle and charming lady, talented, thoughtful, kind, public-minded, possessing a Mona-Lisan smile, in the prime of her life, leaving a fine and wholesome family desolate. en Frank O’Rourke The Abduction of Virginia Lee Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y. J. B. Lippincott Company 1970 71 https://archive.org/details/abductionofvirgi00orou/page/71/mode/1up?view=theater 78-118973 Horatio’s smile, for one moment, was Mona Lisan. en Dayton Daily News 93 118 Dayton, Ohio 4 January 1970 10-D https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/397204232/ Did I detect a Mona Lisan smile? en Industrial Vista https://books.google.com/books?id=AFoiAQAAMAAJ&q=Mona+Lisan 1973 36 “No kidding, swear. He also said that you have a Mona Lison smile.” “Mona Lisan? Oh! I just don’t know how people get all these things into their heads.” en w:Robert Katz Days of Wrath; The Ordeal of Aldo Moro: The Kidnapping, The Execution, The Aftermath Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1980 41 https://archive.org/details/daysofwrathordea0000katz/page/41/mode/1up?view=theater 0-385-14910-7 79-7050 Nature and circumstance had long ago pressed a Mona Lisan mystery on his face. en Jim Sanderson Bedded Bliss, King-Size and Otherwise w:Los Angeles Times 10 May 1981 part VII 19 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387391389/ Her smile was Mona Lisan. en Assemblage https://books.google.com/books?id=g8dUAAAAMAAJ&q=Mona+Lisan The MIT Press 1997 13 0-262-758911 0889-3012 The monochromatic dark suit, the conservative tie, the silk handkerchief in the vest pocket, the Mona Lisan smile, the coat draped capelike over the shoulders speak of him not only as a successful member of the working bourgeoisie, but also as the holder of important spiritual and aesthetic values. en With all these crawls, I’m walking Electronic Media 10 December 2001 25 https://archive.org/details/sim_televisionweek_2001-12-10_20_50/page/25/mode/1up?view=theater Those proverbial powers-that-be in television are trying to accomplish what one would think impossible: to make the picture irrelevant to television instead of its raison d’etre. It’s a little—OK, just a little—like slapping a copyright notice along the bottom of the Mona Lisa. Right: Little TV fare could reasonably be termed Mona Lisan. But trashing up the screen with typographical and animated junk is a slap in the viewer’s face and a sign of intense disrespect for the medium itself. en Niranjan Singh Tasneem The Facets of Human Life: Moods and Moments https://books.google.com/books?id=TnUaAQAAIAAJ&q=Mona+Lisan Delhi Indian Publishers Distributors 2003 192 and 283 whenever he happened to see “a Mona Lisan smile”Mostly we consider this woman no other than his beloved, as a result of which some sort of a Mona Lisan smile flickers on our faces. en Wendell A. Duffield When Pele Stirs: A Volcanic Tale of Hawaiʻi, Hemp, and High-Jinks iUniverse, Inc. 2003 260 https://books.google.com/books?id=ptVjVfrH3o4C&pg=PA260 0-595-30224-6 Sleeping or awake, her facial expression carried an enchanting smile...a hint of Mona Lisan mystery. en Martina Pfeiler Poetry Goes Intermedia: US-amerikanische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2010 220 https://books.google.com/books?id=-b13DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA220 “Sand’s smile at this juncture: Mona Lisan”. Synonyms en Giocondan