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Example sentences for: smirk

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Brian Williams and the Boston Globe 's David Nyhan also noted the Smirk Problem on MSNBC and CNN, respectively, prompting a superbly detailed Dec. 3 article by the Wall Street Journal 's Jackie Calmes.
(In a 1992 report to the National Science Foundation, Ekman and several co-authors reject the term "smirk" on the grounds that it's too coarse and imprecise, "ignoring differences between a variety of different muscular actions to which [it] may refer, and mixing description with inferences about meaning or the message which [it] may convey."
Such things can often raise a chuckle from those who appreciate the incongruity of the item and those who smirk with smug superiority.
Bush perhaps could be considered good-looking, but you can see the ongoing war of his muscles trying to rein in the smirk.
If the first possibility were correct, that would be good news for the southern credentials of George Bush Sr., since (as C-Span's Brian Lamb observed in the Wall Street Journal piece quoted in Chatterbox's earlier item) the smirk was clearly passed from father to son (acquiring some exaggeration in the process).