Sentence examples for foolish smile from inspiring English sources

Jesse shrugs, says: "I know," and then gives a foolish smile.

He looked at me again with that foolish smile and glazed expression.

The removal of the hat, reminiscent of the moment in Chekhov's story "Gusev" when a man gives "a foolish smile" just before lying down and dying, somehow secures the reality of the incident.

"I think a photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever," he said.

Her concerts conjure up scenes from another place and time: grown men running down the aisles clutching bouquets, world-renowned musicians pummelling the railings of the upper boxes, jaded critics breaking into foolish smiles.

The tonal mismatch reaches its ungainly peak in the final frames, as we cut directly from Connor's slightly foolish and besotted smile, over the sunlit breakfast table, to a black screen, bearing the news that thirty-seven million perishederinhed in the First World War.

But I had to smile at such a foolish thought — indeed, how could I ever know?

It was a hectic pace, but, Mr. Robinson said with a smile, "I was young and foolish".

"OK, OK!" I say, a bit too cheerfully, forcing a smile while blinking my eyes to clear my mind of my foolish make-believe.

"Kate she started crying/When she saw my sorry smile... Kate, she said, you are a fool/You've done a foolish thing".

Often, when embracing politics, the celebrity looks foolish and starstruck, removed from his calling – Noel Gallagher, for instance, when he shook hands with Blair and smiled and Blair smiled back, in a perfect pottage of smug smiling.