Sentence examples for perfunctory smile from inspiring English sources
I anticipated a glassy look and perfunctory smile, and so kept the story to myself.
The following week, at a vocational training center run by a women's charitable society called Al Nahda, I watched as the instructor in a course for prospective saleswomen showed her students a wide smile, appropriate for female customers, and a split-second, perfunctory smile for men.
She flashed a perfunctory smile and carried on the conversation I had interrupted.
Daldry and Mirren don't ridicule Elizabeth II; they ridicule her job and its endless mundanities, while focussing on the moments when she sneaks out from behind the discipline, the steely hair, the perfunctory half-smile.
Without the lifeblood hum of genuine intimacy, the relationship becomes a devitalized shell characterized by perfunctory hugs and chilly smiles in public, and much worse behind closed doors.
I smiled and gave the perfunctory head nod -- but it was a lying perfunctory head nod, if there is such a thing.
The executive "didn't want to have to deal with perfunctory social niceties, like, 'Am I smiling enough, or will she take it personally if I'm in a surly mood and frowning?' " Dr. Condren said.
The Democrats' long tradition of perfunctory church visits and get-out-the-vote rallies anchored by smiles, waves, and bones thrown can seem, in hindsight, underlied by a cynical subtext: "Where else are you going to go?" (An inverse of Trump's famous "What do you have to lose?").
Jowls, smile, posture, tunic, haircut — all nearly identical, right down to the dainty and perfunctory way he clapped his hands.
He smiled for the camera but in truth, putting on a happy face on this day was another perfunctory act, like putting on sunblock.
