Arranging a pleasant expression on her face, Miss Cook approached them briskly, her camera poised.
Mere mortals did their best for special occasions, like family outings, with what was, one hoped, a single, pleasant expression.
If all else fails to get a pleasant expression, "I say, 'Don't look so miserable,"' he said".
Apparently his mother had told him a pleasant expression would lead to his being more prominently featured on the blog.
With no traffic around, my grandfather stood on the pavement, a pleasant expression on his face, taking in the truck and its contents.
This "Merchant of Venice" reverently portrayed Shylock as "a liberal rabbi, with a well-trimmed beard and a clever and pleasant expression," according to one reviewer.
But Kate is mostly just a bowl of milk: "From the blank, pleasant expression on her face, you would have thought she could see no farther than the inner surface of her own eye".
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root- canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.
I would have put on a pleasant expression on the way up the subway steps, but Mike is too quick not to guess that, and evidently wishes to see my face when I recognize him.
There is also, similarly, the striking approximation of a human smile on the face of every pig, even a slaughtered one hung upside down by the hocks: the small eyes close tight in mirth and the mouth hangs open in a pleasant expression made worse by the color of the face, which, in its pallor, approximates the colour of Nordic human flesh".
