Paeans to Padmavati's beauty are lavish: "From her smiles, flowers are born," one line runs.
You couldn't call her gross, and there was something in her lavish, well-used smile that was almost delicate.
When asked about that lavish encomium, Mr. Nicola smiled at the overstatement, while asserting that it was not the artistic director that defined his theater but the people who worked there.
"Friends are for Facebook," my husband says when I show him glowing photographs of exotic vacation locales (and by exotic I mean anywhere else), weddings both lavish and simple, smiling families all in beautiful shades of white.
Movies, books and tv shows dramatize this experience and through the rose-tinted glasses, we are unable to see past the actors' fake smiles and lavish description of what would otherwise be best described as "some dude's basement".
His smile was lavish and sympathetic, indicating that he was glad they had sorted out their misunderstanding.
The young attendant — female, dark-skinned, cheery, and sturdy-bodied — says, with the bright smile she lavishes on all patients and patients' relatives who ask such questions of her, "Ma'am, I don't know.
As evidence that Ms. Ajmal was never held against her will, he included a photograph of her at her wedding, a lavish affair with more than 1,000 guests, showing her smiling in an ornate gown, with her arms outstretched, admiring her jewelry.
His favorite picture though, was of him in street clothes, smiling behind his young daughter, at a lavish birthday party he had thrown for her with the winnings from a fight in the United States.
Even those who have no transportation as lavish as Cinderella's are likely to leave this show smiling.
