Everyone in the the pictures was smiling (except, possibly, the village shoemaker).
"Yes, knowing that failure isn't doom is important," Kaplan smiles, "except that right now in the school system, failure IS doom".
"People in Trivandrum seemed very accommodating and ready to smile, except when it came to the temple".
"People in Trivandrum seemed very accommodating and ready to smile, except when it came to the temple". In India, deities can own property, and this temple, dedicated to Vishnu, has been accumulating gold for centuries.
Ms. Blige didn't really smile, except when delivering props to her home city (she was born in the Bronx and grew up in Yonkers).
On hearing this, his father stopped and said with a wistful smile, "Except Mr Schecter".
On hearing this, his father stopped and said with a wistful smile, "Except Mr Schecter". This rare, self-deprecating remark did more than just amuse Sam, it comforted him: he looked over at his father and smiled as if they were sharing a joke, as if they were sharing the same reality.
And abandon all hope, ye who enter here — all hope, that is, if your tastes lean toward the inverted universe of Addams's most famous characters, Morticia, Gomez and their clan, who welcome grim unpleasantness and rarely crack a smile except when doing serious mischief.
Nobody in the painting is smiling except a lady of the court who is engaged in idle gossip.
Even if you can't whiten your teeth then still smile all the time (except when everyone is mourning over something).
