Sentence examples for resigned smiles from inspiring English sources

The departmental secretaries looked up from their desks with resigned smiles.

She and Mr. Abrams stood at the front of the stage, hands folded; Mr. Abrams wore a faint, resigned smile.

"We often find ourselves following the same people," Colonel Gentili said with a knowing and slightly resigned smile.

"I don't know" he said with a wry, resigned smile.

In his place at the defense table, he looked every bit the small fish, sleepy-eyed and downcast, with a slight paunch, a faint stubble and a resigned smile.

With a resigned smile they hand him a leaflet that details the potential horrors ahead, and points out that aid workers are "very likely to come into contact with terrorists once inside".

"You know," she said, with a shy, resigned smile.

And he invariably responds with the grimly resigned smile of a battered industry veteran who views his greatest claim to fame with more resentment than gratitude, and who knows that its kind will never come his way again.

William Conway, a partner at the Carlyle Group, resigned as a member of Smile Train's advisory board shortly after the vote.

And yet the discovery that in less than three decades our societies have achieved Orwellian levels of surveillance provokes, at most, a wry smile or a resigned shrug.

Seabury said the island's residents did not appear to be unduly worried about the crisis: "They shrug their shoulders, smile and give a resigned, pained look".