For these reasons I was amused and, yes, even pleased to learn that another, under-hyped tradition will be making women smile this year.
The sight of him standing there with his sleeves pushed up and his cloth over his shoulder and his look of readiness all this made me smile, and the smile that came back to me seemed to stream out of the glass and into my arms, my chest, my face, my blood.
Eva nodded, and this time she did smile, but Harley was already moving away, loping off toward the gate in his winter coat, the snow clinging to his coat sleeves and the wool cap as he stepped out onto the pavement and headed across the green.
As comedy, this would have raised a half smile out of Harvey, not much more.
"There's no reason not to have a smile on your face at this moment, " Anthony said.
Hugo allowed himself a faint smile when he told me this story.
Sandy's answer to all this pestering was a shrug or a smile: the trick to doing it was his being the quiet, serious, unostentatious boy that he was.
When this freaks out visitors to my office, I smile and take them to a sunny corner of our building.
Try to confirm this rumor with Sequoia partners, and they only smile.
The mention of this problem may in itself raise in many a skeptical smile.
The only way around this is to put, and keep, a slight smile on your face whenever you are in front of a TV camera.
This challenge is one that any agency worth its salt would smile to high heaven to work on.
But in repeating this undertaking yet again in the House of Commons this week, not even Mr Blair could suppress a rueful smile.
If you're holding out on upgrading from a 3G to a 3G S, go ahead and crack a smile -- because for now, anyway, this is one spec bump that means precisely zilch in the real world.
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"Turn this knob, " he directs a reporter, with just the slightest smile.
Davis gave a sideways smile, trying not to show the pleasure he took in this validation of his character from the school nurse, whose wispy sexiness, Lucy suspected, was a factor in the prompt reporting of his symptoms.
Genevieve worked on it another hour, tweaking this and that, until someone recommended that she fix the little girl's smile to be less crooked.
This reminds us of what every service organization and retailer should keep in mind: a smile costs nothing.
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"I am hungry to do well and if this challenge doesn't create a hunger and put a spring in your step and a smile on your face then nothing will, " he said.
Normally Robbie Williams' presence would gladden the heart, but his single nomination this year due to an eligibility hiccup means he'll have to sit there with a gracious smile on his face while Bowie, Van Morrison, Ian Brown, Tom Jones and Sting gamely slug it out for Best Solo artist - tired heavyweights to a man.
"This is like the 1970s in the computer chip business, " says Splinter, flashing a 200-watt smile.
All of this makes the networks, TV and corporate sponsors, secondary ticket handlers, and North Texas restaurants and hotels smile.
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While Obama was talking, Romney more frequently had an openness in his visage, often with a slight smile on his face and very soft eye contact. (Some may view the smile as a smirk, but that is the confirmation bias at play.) I noticed this frequently in the Republican presidential debates.
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