Sentence examples for smile button from inspiring English sources

In 1988 the critic J. Hoberman called it "one of the few regional movies to successfully and unsentimentally peel off the national smile button".

THE Giuliani administration has generally tried to put a smile button on the traffic mess, calling it a sign of good times.

The album is another step in Ms. Callaway's evolution from a polite piano bar entertainer improvising songs around audience suggestions to a pop-jazz powerhouse, with the emphasis on jazz: jazz that wears a smile button, one might add.

If you like what you see, you can click the "smile" button on someone's profile or take the first step by messaging said person, although the latter requires paid-for credits or a subscription.

While recycling a familiar story, the movie gleefully trashes 1970's popular culture with a fetishistic zeal, relishing every silly fashion phenomenon of the have-a-nice-day decade, from smile buttons to cheap brand-name wines.

Without pinning smile buttons onto its characters, the film, a prize winner at this year's Sundance festival, takes a benign look at the conflicts and crises of three generations of a resilient family whose principal breadwinner, Ernesto (Jesus Castanos-Chima), operates a storefront church.

Can someone invent a quick-make-me-smile button?

We have evolved into a smile-button culture.

When Dick Cheney wanted to come on Meet the Press in order to lie in an interview-type setting without having the interviewer challenge him on the factual content of his statements, Tim Russert was there to accommodate him -- not as a tool of the White House, but as a chumbly-bumbly talking Teddy Bear of a journalist, with his ubiquitous pleasant smile and button eyes and fair-mindedness.

The newly named Em Whitney, a 23-year-old with a toothy smile and a button nose, said the change was part of a long gender journey that began when he was a Texas child with a girl's name and a fascination with androgynous characters like Peter Pan and Shakespeare's Puck.

Like all digital point-and-shoots, the shutter release has a slight delay, so I've learned to tell my two boys to smile after the button is all the way down.