The Madonna has a pale, heart-shaped face, tiny pert nose, light distant eyes, and small perfect mouths.

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Classical Chinese notions of beauty call for cherry-blossom lips and an egg-shaped face, and the artists have shaped young Mulan accordingly.

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Director John Landis shaped the face of American comedy for a generation.

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"No one wants a heart-shaped box with my face on it, " says Ms. DeArman.

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Apple has been the face of innovation and it has shaped American inventiveness.

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I'm standing at a first-floor window, an arched stone one like you'd find in a church, my face close up to the diamond-shaped leaded panes, keeping lookout.

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There was the goat-shaped one, Alexander, with a snarl for a face and pin-thin legs.

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We hope that during the election process, a full-fledged government will be shaped, able to solve and rest the issues that face this state.

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Washing with Castile soap and icy water, he worried over his scrawniness, his spindle shins, the green yarns of vein in his forearms, his face so thin that his zygomatic bones and jaw shaped harps underneath his ginger-brown, one-inch beard and mustache.

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He said the numerous lacerations to her face had been caused by "blunt force trauma" inflicted using an "irregular shaped object".

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