I cannot conceive how smiles responded to the brutal darkness that descended upon their beings.
AS conceived by Ingmar Bergman in "Smiles of a Summer Night," the long-retired courtesan Mrs. Armfeldt whom film audiences met in 1955 was not quite the creature we know as Madame Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's latter-day operetta "A Little Night Music".
Two smiling figures, originally conceived in 1857 and 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, were carved in marble in 1873.
Mr. Haddad conceived his debut feature, "When Monaliza Smiled," as a film that would have the sophistication of an art-house film but also appeal to his mother, he said in an interview.
Then, in February 2004, 37 years after it was conceived, Wilson performed a complete version of Smile at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
"There are hardly any photos of her -- even when young -- with such a winning smile, with such a lightness in her expression," Karl Lagerfeld, who conceived and designed the book, writes in the foreword.
Launched with a saccharine smile in the midst of the Vietnam war, the 1964 fair was conceived as an expedient alliance between the city's controversial "master builder" Robert Moses and dream-conjuror Walt Disney, funded by a plethora of corporate sponsors.
Catherine Rayner's soft line but boldly conceived animals have already won her well-deserved praise for her previous titles, Augustus and His Smile and Harris Finds His Feet.
The movie musicals he enjoys — "Love Me Tonight," "Under the Roofs of Paris," "The Smiling Lieutenant" and a couple of the MGMs — are those that were originally conceived for the screen.
If the piece had been conceived by my third grader's dance class and presented at the end-of-year school recital, my indulgent smile would have faded after five minutes.
First conceived in 1967 as a way of connecting people around the world, Ono's updated 21st-century project invites people to upload images of their smiles to Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #smilesfilm.
