It was the relief as much as anything else; the eagerness on their faces and kindness in their eyes reassuring me the siblings would be safe in their arms.
With one eye on reassuring an electorate already inflamed by the Greek bailout, German leaders have spoken recently of their concern for the future of the euro and the need for private bondholders to share the losses, and in so doing were criticized for inflaming the crisis.
The governor dismissed tensions between the militia and the jihadis with his confident reassuring smile, but his eyes were weary.
One or two EU governments may even be temporising deliberately as a way to reassure Russia, a more important goal in their eyes than reassuring Ukraine.None of this is to say that bringing Ukraine into the EU would ever be an easy job.
The way he lures Athena from his memory to the stage parallels the way Almond appears to be coaxing Love through her performance, reassuring her with his eyes of her singular charisma.
These contradictions run all through Twain's work: the lighthearted jests and reassuring plots; the hard, cold eye and exacting ear of a satirist.
And, more poignantly, Matt soon desires anew the intimate small print of sexual contact rather than the headline, allowing his life to resume its relentless, reassuring plod, like the London Eye that opens and closes this winning debut, 'turning so slowly it's impossible to say whether it is moving at all'.
The "Really?" column contending that watching television will not damage your eyes may be reassuring to some.
While some have had diplomatic experience in the region – notably in Indonesia and China – almost all view the world through the reassuring prism of our "Five Eyes" intelligence relationship with the US.
In the northwestern village of El Atatra, in an overheated hall without electricity, 10-year-olds are closing their eyes and imagining a reassuring place.
