Sentence examples for agonized smile from inspiring English sources
Remember the agonized smile of Brandt, the personal assistant in "The Big Lebowski" (1998), who, in immaculate jacket and tie, was obliged to show the Dude — dressed, as usual, as if for a sack race — around the Lebowski mansion, bursting with pride as he comes to a photograph of Nancy Reagan ("First Lady of the nation").
Remember the agonized smile of Brandt, the personal assistant in "The Big Lebowski" (1998), who, in immaculate jacket and tie, was obliged to show the Dude dressed, as usual, as if for a sack race around the Lebowski mansion, bursting with pride as he comes to a photograph of Nancy Reagan ("First Lady of the nation").
With other people present, she can't make a scene, and yet the scene is made, to perfection, by the sudden fall of her face, and by her agonized efforts to crank it back up to a smile.
After an agonized pause, West played low.
He trembles and mutters in agonized mortification.
So Ed made an agonized decision.
This city waited in an agonized calm.
The bar responds with agonized laughter.
Finally, Michael broke the agonized silence.
But the piece sounds anything but agonized.
