I think I smiled, faintly.
In the theatre, I spotted more than a few petite, willowy women probably dancers themselves who were alert, alone, and faintly smiling.
His visage, the faintly smiling outline of his lips, and his straight clear forehead reminded me of features I had seen on earth.
She was faintly smiling, belatedly nodding.
Still faintly smiling, Lustgarten, with his sling and cane, came to Mosby's café table on the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
She would have known that things were all right, from the kindly serious faintly smiling way that Sylvia was talking to me.
Shucked oysters, a scared cat, some dead fish and a jumble of crockery surround the central subject, a faintly smiling ray hanging from a hook.
He handed me a dark oval photograph, torn and faded — a pretty woman with long hair and deep, faintly smiling eyes.
Since the real head closely resembles the painted mask, the curator St John Simpson assumes that the faintly smiling mask of a young woman beside him, which has yet to be scanned, is also based on her appearance in life.
The figure seems clearly modeled on the Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French in Washington except that where Lincoln looks somber, aged and lost in thought, Mao is youthfully alert, his face raised and faintly smiling.
Nothing much happens in the course of "Jeanne Dielman," at least overtly: Jeanne shops, cooks, cleans and receives her customers with the same sober diligence and air of faintly smiling forbearance.
