Sentence examples for Empty smile from inspiring English sources

The simpleton Michael may be an odd career choice for an actor courting stardom, but even with a goofy, empty smile, Prateik has charisma.

His stock in trade was the wink, the nod and the empty smile, and the men who worked on the outer reaches of his universe despised him for his cheapness, his cunning and, as one of them, Frank Graham Jr. said, the way he affected the "Irish pol manqué." The men closer to him admired his intelligence and understood that his was the game of making money, even if he took winning far too seriously.

Theirs was a conspiracy of empty smiles.

"Do I think about what?" Nonette looked at me, her face bland and empty, smiling.

I search their faces looking for evidence of old hopes and dreams but I see, instead, only empty smiles for the camera.

Katherine Heigl plays Abby, a producer for a ratings-challenged Sacramento morning television show, the kind that specializes in empty smiles, cooking tips and weather updates.

As Mick Haller (Mickey in the books), Mr. McConaughey keeps his focus tight — Mr. Furman making sure his camera does the same — doling out empty smiles to the guys with the badges and going straight for the clients whose innocence matters less than their wads of cash.

It will be the same as every year, empty smiles plastered over pained grimaces, desolation and foul reminders of the bleakness of the human condition on display at every turn.

Cheever describes the woman's "empty half smile," the three-legged stool on which she sits, the gray mustache of the man who takes a straight razor to her scalp — neutral, sensory information that nonetheless feels electrified by the moral crisis.

Cradle Isn't Empty Baby Smiled.

Against West Ham last weekend he continued the form that saw him out-assist Luka Modric in the Champions League last season, a tankard-headed Dr Manhattan instigating raids deep into enemy territory, launching zip-wire passes to Liverpool's cut-throat men of the flanks, smiling his empty-eyed smile as the napalm burned in front of him.