Sentence examples for distant smile from inspiring English sources

I also hope it brings you, at the very least, a distant smile of amusement.

She starts having therapeutic revelations — half-truth, half-grandiosity — which Josh tolerates with a pleasant but distant smile.

"And maybe some more animals for them," he said with a nod, and, for once, a distant smile.

Today, she sits in a diner in the Bronx, her pudding-basin haircut framing a soft face with a distant smile.

Where are those bullies now? "My mom said she saw a few of them the other day, just doing nothing," Martin said with a distant smile and a shrug.

"Could that boy talk," one woman said with a faint, distant smile, gazing up dreamily at a twirling ceiling fan.

Viner, who is fifty, has a beard and a distant, knowing smile.

On the stage itself, looking out over thousands of followers sat a diminutive, bespectacled 74-year-old man wearing white and a distant, enigmatic smile.

He described Samy as having a "distant sort of smile".

Mohamed Amimour, 67, spoke about his failed attempt to extract his son, Samy, from the control of Isis commanders, telling the French newspaper Le Monde afterwards how he had been greeted with coldness and "a distant sort of smile".

The regulars in each set greet one another, and then exchange polite but distant nods or smiles with the other two camps.