Muhammad, that anonymous C.B.C. functionary, and Farrakhan, with that faux-harmless smile, all knew it: if that picture spreads in 2007 or 2008, a whole different history ensues.
So Medvedev has stepped in (or been inserted) to do the job with his dopey, harmless-looking smile, and it seems to be working.
But despire their robust manliess, Jiraiya's dudes tend to look very sweet and harmless, often smiling at the viewer in various states of undress--like big, cuddly, smooth bears, basically.
An angry, ranting Corbyn is a fairly harmless creature; a smiling, passive-aggressive Corbyn is a much scarier prospect.
Seated on the floor of his office in nearby Faizabad, Mr. Hashim seemed a harmless figure, a smiling man with a beard.
I smiled in a cheery, harmless sort of way at the doorman, a lot, and let him know I'd come by the next day to see if Mr. Miller was game.
Leo women are fun and observant, and they'll love poking fun of you in harmless ways, and teasing you to make you smile.
Mr. Gover refused to dismiss the boy's preoccupation with the smiling, big-toothed baseball caricature as harmless.
Later, they showed up on surveillance tapes at a clothing store, buying shoes, smiling, looking just as casual and harmless as can be.
It reinforces the idea that Santorum, with his ready smile and boring haircut, is just another harmless, goofy white guy from the American heartland.
