Sentence examples for savage smile from inspiring English sources

Or the professor who grills a squirming, clueless student, lips curled in a small, savage smile.

It's a zinger that you can imagine being wielded with bright and withering contempt by a worldly woman with a savage smile.

Madeleine Bunting The one thing last year's US election carries over into 2009 is a savage, sardonic smile.

Savage: (Savage laughs).

She sat in the middle of the group in a green and yellow African dress, able to raise a half-smile but savage grief robbed her and everyone else in the room of words.

Labour initially dismissed the big society idea as a con trick - a cynical attempt to slap a smiling face on savage spending cuts.

After all my tanning and shaving and smiling, the agent for Savage Knights, she gave me a sheet of paper printed with directions to a clinic.

He doesn't imitate Blair; he offers his own interpretation of a public man's impersonally brisk and hardened charm — the smile is reflexive, dazzling, and savage.

He doesn't imitate Blair; he offers his own interpretation of a public man's impersonally brisk and hardened charm the smile is reflexive, dazzling, and savage.

Said to be inspired by Vittorio de Sica's Shoeshine, Los Olvidados is a welcome antidote to that genre of wayward boys films, where a gentle lesson and a wry smile can turn the most savage delinquent soft.

Savages are presumably excited too, but a smile would spoil their reputation as Britain's sternest band.