Word: smiling
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...Mother has no milk-drop of the maternal instinct. She speaks to Coraline in the curt, distracted voice that a stern boss would use on a cleaning woman who had entered her office during a conference call. Mother is efficient, officious, utterly joyless; you couldn't make her smile if you handed her over to the Guantanamo tickling team...
...someone so uniquely socially gifted, it was somewhat unexpected. Only a few months into our Harvard experience, Clarel had already emerged as one of the most likeable, most recognizable figures in Annenberg. With his infectious laugh and wide smile, Clarel brought joy to even the most mundane of activities. In many ways, he appeared the Harvard ideal: a natural leader, blessed with intelligence, creativity, and the capacity to bring large groups of people together with interests as varied...
...Sold the WorldBy William KleinknechtRonald Reagan is pretty much the devil. This is fact. I mean, look at that charming face, that movie star smile, that evil cancer stick dangling from his pretty mouth, coercing impressionable children everywhere to smoke. This book is almost certainly about all the wrongdoing Reagan perpetrated while he hid behind his coy grin and dashing good looks. From Iran-Contra to Reaganomics to introducing crack cocaine to the hood (alright, maybe he didn’t really do this, but damn if he doesn’t make a good scapegoat), there?...
...that you spent five days skiing and watching sixteen films, they might suspect that you spent the week on a cocaine binge with the ghost of Hunter S. Thompson. If you tell the same story in Park City, Utah, though, even your cab driver will give you a knowing smile that says, “Your first Sundance Festival...
...Slender with thick hair and a shy smile, Ali made headlines in Yemen last April when she walked out on a man more than three times her age, to whom her father had married her off. It was an act driven by terror and despair. (See the top 10 crime stories...