mousiness

Most of them had believed in her carefully planned mousiness.

Besides, she was becoming attractive, the school mousiness remained in manner only.

Usually she wasn't disturbed by her mousiness, having accepted it as an unchangeable fact, much like having the sun rise in the east.

Now the focus shifts to Helen, a legal secretary and homebody whose mousiness provides Ms. Curtis with a comic opportunity that she handles beautifully.

Every muscle of his face and every bone in his body are utterly committed to these alternating bouts of mousiness and mania.

And her zany warmth, along with Ms. Shelly's mischievous mousiness, fill out the movie's affectionate, comical view of workplace sisterhood.

Also strongly implicated in mousiness are lactic acid bacteria, including at least one strain that winemakers add intentionally when they want to carry out malolactic fermentation.

Forever covering her mouth bashfully or shrugging off life's affronts to her dignity, she has trouble only with being too radiant for her character's supposed mousiness.

Her plain face had taken on a glow, she had done her hair in a most fetching way, and unless Eugenia was very much mistaken, its mousiness had been discreetly tinted.

Her eyes are obscured behind thick glasses and the high cliffs of her cheekbones, but Selma's capacity for feeling - for joy as well as agony and terror - overwhelms her mousiness.

Mousiness is a wine fault most often attributed to Brettanomyces but can also originate from the lactic acid bacteria Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus fermentum, and Lactobacillus hilgardii, and hence can occur in malolactic fermentation.