Sentences with phrase «pained smile»

With a deftly layered palette he gets directly at states of being, the deep solitude occasionally seen behind someone's gaze or pained smile, and represents them through a posture, a figurative grouping, or a landscape.

My father kept smiling his fake, pained smile.

And there it is: That pained smile was the patch of comedy real - estate Shandling staked out for himself, and still owns.

From the slightest sign, a half word, a pained smile, it sees in a flash the most complex inner condition.