Sentence examples for approving smile from inspiring English sources

When she finishes, she stands silently behind him, sometimes with an approving smile, sometimes looking strained.

"Once my girl makes up her mind, there's no stopping her," he tells her with an approving smile.

Perhaps we will soon be seeing Mrs Hudson's approving smile as Doctor Watson has a big fake orgasm over the curried fowl.

All that remained was for Advocaat to greet the final whistle with arms folded, a slow, approving smile playing at the corners of his mouth.

The question of how many American troops remain in 2012 and afterwards will contribute to the country's instability, with Muqtada al-Sadr and his Shia zealots endorsing attacks on Americans as his Iranian friends look on with an approving smile.

A day will dawn when a section of readers might miss the experience of walking into a corner bookstore, recognizing a few faces, stumbling upon an unexpected book, long for the civility of a conversation outside a bookstore, crave for a bookseller whose approving smile on the purchase of a copy of Man Without Qualities could be the beginning of a beautiful literary friendship.

German politics, mused Ms Merkel, to the approving smiles of her colleagues, had lived too long by focusing on partial truth.

(And won approving smiles from the Parisians I'd always supposed would laugh disdainfully at such incompetence. So much for that canard).

It earned us approving smiles, horn honks (admittedly of unknown sentiment), and thumbs-ups from passersby.

"When the two women first appeared on the runway, holding hands," said Sarah Zlotnick, Editor at Project Wedding, "there were lots of head nods and approving smiles.

"That meant she approved," smiles Anne-Marie.