Sentence examples for was only smiling from inspiring English sources

When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

Hernández even smiled like a 7-year-old at a pool party after the game, although he became cranky and claimed he was only smiling with Leo Astacio, his interpreter.

It looks like a lie; they are only smiling in an attempt to fool themselves that their lives aren't horrible.

The more you smile--even if you're only smiling at your own reflection--the more approachable and friendly your face will look.

Yet there were only smiles on show on Saturday.

In the memories, she says, there are only smiles and laughter.

Today, there were only smiles, especially from Petr Sykora, who watched the cup presentation from a bed at Baylor Medical Center in Dallas.

At U.C.L.A., however, there are only smiles as the top recruit Shabazz Muhammad announced he would play for the Bruins next season, a stunner considering U.C.L.A.'s recent irrelevance in college basketball and Coach Ben Howland's well-publicized discipline issues.

Genteel political debate, in which no one offends anyone, where there are only smiles and no tears, is only possible in a dictatorship where debate is suppressed, or possibly in Luxembourg where everyone seems to agree with each other.

He insisted he liked "to do my tiny, little bit to keep political debate as clean as possible" (though he later also said, "genteel political debate, in which no one offends anyone, where there are only smiles and no tears, is only possible in a dictatorship where debate is suppressed").

There was only a smiling, slightly chubby man in a green sweater-vest and a phone filled with portraits of his geese.