smile fixedly

She managed a polite nod to Ansra, who smiled fixedly at everyone.

Then he smiled fixedly as the waiter deposited a bowl of soup in front of him.

By the time he had finished, Eva Wilt's replica lay on the bed smiling fixedly at the ceiling.

To any observer, he was simply smiling fixedly at Shelby in precisely the same way he had been before.

"Three years ago I was doing 10, 20 operations a month," he says, smiling fixedly.

Miles, faint, leaned on the desk and smiled fixedly at the image of the rod.

Up in the stands, Lady Helena continued to wave her pennants, smiling fixedly down at the spectacle.

The kid was still smiling fixedly at the knife.

The elevator girls smiled fixedly, bowing to the customers with machinelike precision, and made what looked like ritual hand gestures.

An alpha supervisor departed; another alpha, bowing stiffly, smiling fixedly, entered.