Sentence examples for quite smiling from inspiring English sources

Here she is: stern, knowing, aloof, never quite smiling.

He wasn't quite smiling, but he looked pleased.

He added, not quite smiling, "But I don't perceive it to be shallow, because I'm here".

Chilean writers have depicted as an illness a condition of numbing, if not quite smiling, acquiescence.

"What the hell is happening now?" James Gandolfini asked, not quite smiling, at the start of an interview last week.

"Let the record reflect that I said this with a smile," he said, not quite smiling, "but would I have preferred that this film be about my coverage of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil-rights movement?

By putting a black-and-white photo of a not-quite smiling Blankfein on its inaugural cover, the new Businessweek appeared more news-driven and serious than its meme-happy predecessor had in years.

"Just getting signed to a record label in itself seemed like such a privilege," says Rothman, a genial man who never quite stops smiling.

"Quite special," smiled Federer, with perfect understatement.

But Cowell may not have been smiling quite as much as the BBC1 controller, Danny Cohen, when the first audience figures came through on Sunday.

This time, his radiance was a little dulled, he was not smiling quite as much, and what he said was so downbeat as to sound almost defeatist about the European aspiration which Mansour and the chairman, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, made a priority for their lavish Abu Dhabi spending on a squad to deliver success.