Still, as in the early days, you barely crack a smile in three hours of gorgeous harmony and pageantry (3:15).
Huey Freeman, the hero of "The Boondocks" and McGruder's supposed alter ego, has not cracked a smile in five years of syndication.
As the gunmen burst in, firing indiscriminately, the first genuine smile in six months would spread wide across your face, and you'd leap, giggling, into the line of fire.
Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst; Let the slave grinding at the mill, run out into the field: Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air; Let the inchained soul shut up in darkness and in sighing, Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years; Rise and look out, his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open.
If you have never seen your child smile in eight years and believe that he never will smile, I can assure you it is nothing short of amazing.
"I HAVEN'T smiled in two years this is the first time," beams a middle-aged refugee.
If we are smiling in two weeks time then that will be a good omen".
"I've seen Joan smile more in two years than I saw Jon smile in the last 20," said Dr. Paul Ehrlich, an ecologist and longtime colleague of Dr. Roughgarden's at Stanford.
Jack has not even smiled in seven years.
As they started filming, Rapace adjusted her performance slightly with each take — more smiling in one, more solemn in the next.
