We're constantly feeling overwhelmed and we hardly smile.
As that forecast circulated around the Bethpage grounds Wednesday, it hardly elicited smiles.
He has also acquired a reputation for brusqueness with journalists (he walked out of an interview with the Guardian in Iowa) and, unusually for an American politician, he hardly ever smiles.
On the down side, Mortensen hardly ever smiled or gave any sign of reliable human warmth.
The characters are too constricted by a punishing puritanical code of behavior to have much fun; hardly a smile is cracked throughout the film's glum 140 minutes.
Yet hardly a smile was cracked at a rehearsal last week in a small former television studio in Kingston, where Mercury Rev has been based since the late 1990s.
Her 6-3, 6-2 victory, over Mathilde Johansson of France, for the most part seemed inevitable, and while the opponents will get tougher, the magnitude greater, Stephens hardly even smiled afterward.
Walking amid the shops and bustle of central Barking this week, Zain Achtar, a 19-year-old student, could hardly stop smiling as he basked in a borough free of the BNP.
And have you noticed that the models in fashion ads hardly ever smile, because that would suggest approachability and friendliness, rather than intimidation and superiority in an image designed to tell women they will never look this good, but why not spend a lot of money trying?
"She could hardly stop smiling".
You can hardly help smiling when you see them.
