Sentence examples for a single smile from inspiring English sources

You can comb through thousands of photographs of politicians, soldiers, and the like from Lincoln's time and not find a single smile.

The governor entered the packed chamber with nary a handshake for the hundreds of lawmakers and other officials who had assembled to hear him speak, and did not crack a single smile during his 30-minute address.

Viewers of "The Killers," in 1946, saw Ava Gardner swivel on a piano stool, greet Burt Lancaster, size up the poor lunk, and let him know with a single smile, to his infinite delight, that he was doomed.

Mr. Bellocchio, the writer and director of "The Wedding Director," allows him a single smile in the course of the film, but like a Buster Keaton hero, the actor refuses mirth in part to provoke the audience's laughter.

By chance, Jane had known Greenwood when they worked together at Guy's Hospital, and I often thought of the boyishly handsome doctor who could rouse an entire women's ward with a single smile.

All it takes is a single smile aimed in his direction, and this man can't stay mad at you. 17.

The contract helps overcome that, as does embodying the state in the form of a single, smiling individual.

The album followed a No. 1 single, "Smile," a lilting reggae confection that sounds so sunny on first listen that it is shocking to realize that it is a vengeful goodbye to a contrite cheater.

When the release of her first single, "Smile", catapulted her into a long, hot summer of massive exposure, an advertisement was even placed in the local paper in Islington, where she had lived as a schoolgirl, offering cash for racy information.

"We owe everything to this," Ms. Mora said as one of the twins, now 13 months old, squirmed in her arms, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a single word: "Smile".

Bullied at school and woefully neglected at home, he becomes entangled in the web of his obsession with Alice, a girl to whom he has never spoken but who has with a single unthinking smile appeared uniquely to acknowledge his status as a fellow human being.