So he nodded, smiled, listened, was happy.

He smiled at me, and it was not the worried, nervous smile from before, but a smile that meant he was pleased. And I don't remember him ever smiling at me that way again.

The kindness in his smile seemed infinite.

The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.

Javonen smiled - very slightly. Call it a down payment on a smile.

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.

He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;

It was the smile of Narcissus bending over the water mirror, the deep, enchanted, protracted smile with which he stretched out his arms to the reflection of his own beauty, an ever so slightly contorted smile — contorted by the hopelessness of his endeavor to kiss the lovely lips of his shadow — and coquettish, inquisitive and mildly pained, beguiled and beguiling.

Kiyoshi looked pleased, and smiling broadly, he slowly inhaled over the cup.
Upon observing this, Nagare’s narrow eyes arched in pleasure. That the coffee he served in the cafe was never just ordinary was a source of great pride and joy to him. He puffed out his chest with an air of satisfaction and retired behind the counter.

He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled...

I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who fucked with his car and didn’t break it.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

He smiled his first smile of the day. He probably allowed himself four.
[...]
He was doing an awful lot of smiling that day. Using up a whole week's supply.

He turned to look at her, and she was smiling at him. It was Noÿs as she had been, and his own heart beating as it had used to.