Sentence examples for mirthless smiles from inspiring English sources

(The executives' lips were like dead worms stretched across mirthless smiles. Their cheeks were like hardened clumps of concrete).

The worst of these gastropornographies, which come at you with the mirthless smiles of theme-park greeters, often are devoted to some single restaurant or chef, and they tend to promote a "vision -- an "authentic experience of a paradise that never was.

The weight of the world has settled on the shoulders of Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, and it was visible today in his reddened, sleepless eyes, his mirthless smiles and his solemn pronunciation of the momentous event convulsing his state and his family.

A recent declaration by Hamas's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, that the movement has won a great victory draws mirthless smiles.But many faithfully stick to the official version.

"It's just the beginning," the guard said, encouragingly, to which the aide flashed a mirthless smile.

Friedkin replies with a mirthless smile: "I was never moved by Star Wars".

Speaking quietly with his lawyer in court, his face periodically flexed, in a sudden rictus, a mirthless smile.

It's a belated transatlantic retort to Taxi Driver-era Robert de Niro's mirthless smile and similarly betokens a nasty little herbert with a penchant for sadism.

When he made his first western, William Wellman's muscular "Yellow Sky" (1948), Mr. Widmark still played a villain, but one called Dude, who menaced people with his mirthless smile and insinuating singsong.

Why don't you go join that pantywaist Specter on the other side where you belong?" Senator Russ Feingold got into the fray, asking Cheney sarcastically: "Can you tell us exactly which terrorist plots were foiled by torture?" Cheney offered his mirthless smile.

But no: her smile isn't enigmatic, it's the twisted sister to Robert De Niro's scarily mirthless grin.