Sentence examples for phony smiles from inspiring English sources

But there may now be no more elemental and elegant House of Cards-style subplot than the one marked by the phony smiles and honey-coated barbs exchanged on an almost daily basis between New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

I was in a 100-girl drill team-we were called the Tornettes.. We went on the field at halftime during football games, performing...our Rockette-influenced routines..the band would break into our theme song, and the phony smiles we were instructed by our officers to display..would become real smiles.

All those rallies and sycophants and phony smiles and eventually just like mom warned, your face does freeze that way.

Not once did a waiter flash a phony smile and ask, "Is there anything else before I bring you the check?" The same went for the outdoor restaurant at the Chwar Chra Hotel (it means "four lanterns" in Kurdish), in the nearby city of Erbil.

It's the verbal equivalent of a body slam or a phony smile.

It is apparent in every dirty look, hair flip and phony smile.

"That's nice," the publisher said with pursed lips and a phony smile.

But for all the phony smiling and pretending to be a changed man all season when Roethlisberger stated, "I don't put the blame on anybody but myself.

If I told you that Grover said Nancy Pelosi had that big phony smile on her face when she kicked the dog, wouldn't that make you want to throw out every tax and spend politician and bureaucrat in Washington?" "I think I'd still like to talk to Nancy Pelosi".

Don't smile a phony smile, and don't grin the whole time, it makes you look weird.

A fake smile can make you look phony, nervous, or even dangerous, so don't just try to put on a smile without first practicing or putting yourself in a happy state of mind.