As comedy, this would have raised a half smile out of Harvey, not much more.

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Harvey watched me go about my business with a puzzled half smile.

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His favorite position is seated and musing, whether on a staircase or at a window, with a perpetual half smile on his lips as he savors the view and his own refined sensations.

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He looked almost imploringly at the jury, with a wan, sort of half-smile on his face.

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Earlier my companion, a spa rookie, was led to his first treatment wearing a robe, flip-flops and a trepidatious half-smile.

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Jobs and his enigmatic half-smile were seemingly everywhere you looked in the days following his death from pancreatic cancer one year ago.

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Other diffusion methods include aromatherapy, light therapy and the half-smile approach.

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It provoked a half-smile from Zola, but his new side were about to show the defensive frailties that the former Chelsea striker would have exploited with relish in his playing days.

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Those seated nearest him ducked away with a wince that was also a smile, half apologetic.

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Such an admission, if it were ever to be made, would usually occur orally as part of the sheepish smile, half-hearted handshake, and shrug that would accompany the handing over of a settlement payment from the offending party to the victim.

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