She looked sad but smiled as she politely answered a reporter's questions.

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She stayed firmly in the audience until after the speech, but smiled when her husband said she kept him going after the death of their son Ivan.

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Martha smiled, but she was far away, lost in her own thoughts.

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She smiled, but her eyes grew shiny with tears.

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She neither smiled nor cried, but stared at me with a peculiar gentleness, as if I were a kind of nourishment.

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She smiled and played her role, but the rage inside began to build and consume her.

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"You'll have to wait and see but, um, anything is possible, " she smiled.

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But Maya actually smiled and said that day camp might be just what she needed.

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But when the nurse explained that they were there to take her home, her face flushed and she smiled, he said.

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This was not the case, but Wadsworth indulged this indulgence of him and smiled as the boy turned cartwheels, stole up behind the cook while she bent to the bake oven, or played a guessing game with acorns hidden in his fists.

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