In "After the Men Are Dead," Pollitt muses, wishfully, on a possible future of "manlessness" that awaits most women, when, among other things, she might stop "thinking someone was brave when he was just tall" and might find it "restful, not having to think about love, romance, sex, pleasing, listening, encouraging, smiling at the old jokes".
And goes on and on, session after session, step after step, exercise after exercise, encouraging smile after encouraging smile.
Some looked away nervously; others offered him encouraging smiles.
She's a study in active listening: keen, subtle, thoughtful, with this dangerously encouraging smile.
George responds with encouraging smiles, plausible excuses, and a commitment to Paolo that things will change, but nothing does.
But "The Tale of Despereaux" is on the side of kindness, not cruelty, and it encourages smiles if not the book's flights of fancy.
Chorus numbers began through collective instinct, with encouraging smiles and lots of eye contact giving the whole thing a refreshingly spontaneous feel.
At the end, I looked out at the sea of encouraging smiles in the audience and asked, "Does anyone have any questions?" Hands shot up, and I pointed to someone in the back.
Your friends with children said -- maybe with encouraging smiles on their faces -- that sleep derivation is the worst of it.
