Sentence examples for barely smiled from inspiring English sources
After each hit, Matsui barely smiled as he accepted congratulations.
Taciturn at first, the couple barely smiled and seemed ill at ease with the sudden attention.
But he wasn't there to stretch out songs or improvise; he played close to the vest and barely smiled.
In his photo, Brown barely smiled, his green mortarboard tilted back on his large head, a red sash around his shoulders – a slight bravado that, his teacher noted, might have obscured how difficult reaching this moment had been.
Stockton, a 38-year-old point guard, barely smiled during his pregame standing ovation as the fans honored him for tying John Havlicek's National Basketball Association record of 1,270 games played with the same team.
The people in the vicinity of the man at Madison Square Garden barely smiled, looking around the arena as if they were embarrassed one of their own could not come up with something less stale.
This, it turns out, was an installation by Michael Stipe, which makes perfect sense since he barely smiles in front of gnarled trees, too.
In the same building the next day, Mr Oddsson barely smiles when he tells The Economist, "They say that the only way to get to paradise without dying is to be governor of a central bank.
He barely smiles once for the entire duration of the film and, while a darker and more authentic Bond was what the producers wanted, this approach gets a bit wearying in a film that's over two hours long.
They are still getting their onstage dynamic right: during one show, Ms. Deschanel, dressed in the same flowy gray skirt she later wore to the interview (double-dipping outfits: very indie darling), appeared nervous, barely smiling until nearly the end of the set.
When her 9-year-old grand-niece, Travis Holliston Colemann), arrives at her farm, Lettie can barely smile at the child, whose need for affection is more tenderly met by a baby lamb and Isaiah Griffin, a fatherly farmhand played by Charlie Robinson (right, with Ms. Moore and Ms. Coleman).
