Sentence examples for hopeful expression from inspiring English sources

This makes the painting a hopeful expression of belief at a moment of catastrophe.

The cover for Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel The Shepherd's Crown shows his teenage witch Tiffany Aching facing forwards, arms outstretched, a hopeful expression on her face.

And when I looked back up I watched the giddy, hopeful expression that had been on her face turn into something that I don't like to think about, even 20 years later.

(Ages 3 to 7) The hopeful expression on the bright blueBog Baby — a creature that may be found when one is not playing at Annie's house, as promised — is the main selling point of this charmingly conceived modern fable.

When, at a graduation, a wedding or a funeral, those friends at last meet the groused-about malefactors — a mild lady with a snow-white bob and a hopeful expression, a courtly father who jokes amiably with his children's peers — they ask themselves, wonderingly, These nice people, these were monsters?

For this reason, Occupy Love is an inspired, hopeful expression of the power of people to overcome adversity that must be watched by anyone deeply concerned with the fate of our planet.

Tuesday was a day for smiles and optimism and hopeful expressions by team officials.

His existence was reduced to indiscriminate licking, hopeful expressions of love for whatever open palm or chair leg came near.

Mr. D'Angelo can do his version of pretty playing: nubby, sharp phrases on alto saxophone or bass clarinet that balloon into long and hopeful expressions.

But at the same time, behind the hopeful expressions, lingering suspicions lurk -- focused, primarily, on three contentious considerations: town houses, school seats and sewers.

The cover of "America's Children: Picturing Childhood From Early America to the Present" is predictably adorable: two little boys, gazing into the camera with bright eyes and hopeful expressions.