Sentence examples for pained smiles from inspiring English sources

The sheer cost of bandwidth is bad enough – but internet service providers give you pained smiles and say you'll have to pay extra, or that high-speed video just isn't going to reach their customers.

Years ago, we received incredulous smirks and pained smiles when we suggested in UN meetings that gender equality would only be achieved when men did half of the care work.

Over an outdoor picnic lunch, with pained smiles, they told me a little about my birth mother.

The pained smiles on the faces of his staff say everything.

A true believer in Elysium's preservation-of-privilege-through-quarantine, her pained smiles, over-enunciation, and the changing hues of her outfits -- from white to gray to gun-barrel pewter -- suggest both her growing militarism and the sense that Elysium is getting hard to protect, what with namby-pamby politicians forbidding lethal force against refugee shuttles.

The elderly nurses turned cordial, and even Matron gave me a pained smile.

Unfortunately for Mr Brown, his somewhat pained smile drew ridicule from across the country.

"They could have fixed the security cameras for a few Egyptian pounds each," he said with a pained smile.

She bounces back each time with a slightly pained smile and a toss of her mane.

"We are the poster child for the credit crisis," said Jeffrey M. Peek, flashing a tight, pained smile.

I said something in Arabic to a man in the gym the other day, and he gave me a pained smile.