She had a forced smile and a sad, rather frantic look in her eyes.
With a forced smile, Jan picked up where she had left off.
"It didn't take you long to make new friends," he said, with a forced smile.
They each offered the other a forced smile, then turned and continued their progress back toward the hotel.
"Nice to see you, Jack," she said through a forced smile.
Again, she did not resist, but gave him her hand with a forced smile.
I closed my eyes, then looked up at him with a forced smile.
I lower my window with a forced smile on my face.
I smiled, a forced smile, but at least one of us was trying.
He looked at his friend with a forced smile.
Then his mouth softened into a mirthless smile that was even worse.
He hesitated, and a mirthless smile touched his full lips.
There was a mirthless smile creeping out across his face now.
The corners of his lips twisted into a mirthless smile.
Then he stood and looked down at her, a mirthless smile on his face.
"Those are two guys who have been in Washington too long," he said with his tight, mirthless smile.
This brought nothing but a mirthless smile to the King's lips.
She glanced back in my direction once more and gave a mirthless smile.
"Stand," he said, and sent her a wide, mirthless smile.
Cheered by this happy discovery, he gave a mirthless smile.
His ears turned pink as he gave me a strained smile.
"If there is a back," he says with a strained smile.
Her face was white, but she gave me a strained smile.
She gave the other six members of the Council, who sat at the dusty table with her, a strained smile.
He took a deep breath, and looked at me with a strained smile.
He looked at her with an odd strained smile, and pointed up the road.
He sent her a smile so strained, it looked painful.
Turning to the queen with a strained smile, he continued.
"This time it goes at least," he said with a strained smile.
She caught my eye and smiled the same strained smile she'd used before.
The man who had called them stepped back, his teeth bared in a mirthless grin.
Behind his mask, Slasher's lips twisted into a mirthless grin.
"What a pretty place," he said, showing all his teeth in a mirthless grin.
"I stopped doing that when you blew off my arm," said Hasmek with a mirthless grin.
At this Lena smiled again with that mirthless batrachian grin.
With a mirthless grin he added, "Maybe then people would finally pay me some heed."
He stepped into the hall, his thin lips forming a mirthless grin.
'Yes indeed,' Duke said, and offered him a hard, mirthless grin.
"My mother didn't love me," Eileen said, and grinned a mirthless grin at the door.
Forester gave a mirthless grin and went back through the door.