And that smile travels like a jubilant sunbeam through the dusky rooms of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery here, radiating from each of the 35 Chinese limestone sculptures in "Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries".
Played against a stark, bare-walled set, the Male and Female Chorus (William Burden and Christine Goerke) are portrayed as a sullen married couple, sitting in a dusky living room on a leather couch.
It struck me that before I could reach the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, I had to pass through the front hall, cross the dusky living room with its sagging couch, walk the length of the kitchen, and climb two sets of creaking stairs, the long one up to the landing and the short one up to the hall.
Still, there is sadness in the dusky exhibition rooms that will soon be closed to the public.
The view into the yard was obscured by a tangle of creepers, making the room dusky.
Mr Stevenson knows the secret things that haunt rain-pools and grasses and dusky corners of firelit rooms, he loves ships, and he has seen the folly of being big.
Chrebet had trouble keeping his chin from his chest as walked out of the locker room into the dusky evening.
The room, dressed in dusky oil paintings and gilt trim, is typically ringed by a restless, chattering cloud, equal parts men and women.
(A favorable exchange rate also allowed him to stretch a tiny budget). Instead of shooting interiors at the Algonquin, the Rose Room with its dusky walnut interior was reproduced at two-thirds scale on a soundstage in Quebec.
