Sentence examples for tense smile from inspiring English sources

Jung-Beeman has a tense smile, a receding hairline, and the wiry build of a long-distance runner.

As I shook his hand and introduced myself, he flashed me a tense smile but did not meet my eyes.

"I'm not who people expect me to be," says Greene, an earnest, thoughtful 53-year-old with a somewhat tense smile.

Miss Arizona stood in a corner, a tense smile on her face, in a gown with a hoop skirt of ruffles of white organdie eyelet (a hundred and sixty yards) with a bouquet of red carnations at one side.

Instead of drunk heckles, they usually show passive-aggressive disdain by plastering on a tense smile.

It was magical thinking to believe that my slight nod and tense smile projected confidence when I caught his eye in the courtroom.

The N.B.A. lockout did not end Thursday night, but it edged ever closer to a finale, amid tense smiles, light-hearted quips and provocative word choices by the men who are negotiating a new labor deal.

MR: I don't think they did, especially after seeing everybody's faces frozen in that tense smile-sneer thing.

Embarrassment can be signaled by averting the eyes or shifting them away, turning of the head, and controlled or even tense smiles.

And as a harpist played and 30 raffia horse costumes made by Nick Cave and animated by Alvin Ailey school students trotted around, Ms. Pasternak watched with a tense, protective smile.

After her death he gave the image of her tense, fiercely smiling face to a friend to keep.