Would it be correct to say:
The person had a Mona-Lisa-like expression.
or
The person had a Mona Lisa-like expression.
It strikes me that the former is correct, but I wanted to be sure.
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According to this article's title apparently it is: Mona Lisa-like. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31320879/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/nude-mona-lisa-like-painting-surfaces/#.VmZlNHsx5mo WARNING pictures may be disturbing. Not writing an answer as I can't yet prove that the first example is wrong or right. – CipherBot Dec 08 '15 at 05:07
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Possible duplicate of http://english.stackexchange.com/q/286121/142429 – Academiphile Dec 08 '15 at 06:01
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I'm really tempted to use quotation marks to say "Mona Lisa"-like just so that Mona Lisa is treated as a single entity. – SomethingDark Dec 08 '15 at 06:03
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I believe that The Chicago Manual of Style recommends using a space and an en dash: Mona Lisa–like. – Sven Yargs Dec 13 '15 at 10:11
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Would it be correct to say:
The person had a Mona-Lisa-like expression.
or
The person had a Mona Lisa-like expression.
Neither of them is very good English at all - Mona Lisa like sounds forced and artificial - and I would be looking for an alternative sentence construction.
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