I keep thinking "Joker Smile" but that only gets me bad lip inflation pics!

Katie Nolan and Elle Duncan of ESPN, both have these really big, really smiley smiles. Is there a name for it?

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I believe the technical term is, “@#$%& eating.”

The "I just had my teeth bleached" smile

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Hurts like a bastid...

I think it's just a "big smile."

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I think it's just a "big smile."

Why were these smiles selected? What does Regis' (cut off) smile look like in the first pic?



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Google “invisalign wider smile”

"Julia Roberts" smile.

Is there a name for this kind of smile?

That depends on how you're choosing to characterize said smiles or what motivation you're ascribing to them.

Sometime a really sincere smile may be hard to effect when someone raised a camera or says 'SMILE!'.



I think it's just a "big smile."

That's how I roll.

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There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

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I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

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all who would be called good
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You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
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I think it's just a "big smile."

In my day and part of the world, the term “big, broad* smile” was commonplace.



*“Broad” as in wide, not the vulgarism used to refer to women.

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I think it's just a "big smile."

In my day and part of the world, the term “big, broad* smile” was commonplace.



*“Broad” as in wide, not the vulgarism used to refer to women.

We got sunlight on the sand
We got moonlight on the sea
We got mangos and bananas
You can pick right off the tree
We got volleyball and ping-pong
And a lot of dandy games
What ain't we got?
We ain't got dames

We get packages from home
We get movies we get shows
We get speeches from our skipper
And advice from Tokyo Rose (was a @#$%&. radio station at ware time)
We get letters doused with perfume
We get dizzy from the smell
What don't we get?
You know darn well

We got nothing to put on a clean white suit for,
What we need is what there ain't no substitue for

There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame

We feel restless we feel blue
We feel lonely and in grief
We feel every kind of feeling
But the feeling of relief
We feel hungry as the wolf felt
when he met red riding hood
What don't we feel? we don't feel good

Lots of things in life are beautiful but brother,
There is one particular thing that is nothing whatsoever in any shape or form
like any other

There is nothing like a dame, nothing in the world
There is nothing you can name that is anything like a dame

Nothing else is built the same,
Nothing in the world
Has the soft and wavy frame
Like the silhouette of a dame

There's absolutely nothing
like the frame of a dame

So suppose a dame ain't bright
Or completly free from flaws
Or as faithful as a bird dog
Or as kind as santa clause
It's a waste of time to worry
Over things that they have not
Be thankful for the things they've got

There is nothing you can name
That is anything like a dame
There are no books like a dame
And nothing looks like a dame
There are no drinks like a dame
And nothing thinks like a dame
Nothing acts like a dame
Or attracts like a dame
There ain't a thing thats wrong with any man here
That can't be cured by putting him near
a girly, womanly, female, feminine dame

"toothy".

"Forced"?

For the newsreaders, with all that's happening in the world, I'd say "creepy."

Don Henley's Dirty Laundry comes to mind:
"We got the bubble-headed bleach-blonde who comes on at five
She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die..."

No expert in this, but if the smile is forced, I think it doesn’t tend to involve the eyes (as much).

So, #1 looks largely real (and includes back head tilt), #2 looks partially forced, 3 and 4 look largely forced (to me).

I remember Linda Ellerby on NBC News Overnight during the Iran hostage crisis. She later wrote a book where she characterized the standard news reader female as a "Twinky." That word referred to the overall intellectual presentation rather than to any one thing, but there is something to that word in these photos, particularly how forced the smiles are.

definitely NOT a Bette Davis smile.

oh, wait. that was eyes. still..

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Ear to ear smile?

Pretty woman

"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made."
- Jean Giraudoux

The smiles are one thing, but this post has become a Rorschach test, it seems.

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A priest, a rabbit and a minister walk into a bar.
The bartender asks the rabbit "what'll ya have?"
The rabbit says "I dunno. I'm only here because of Autocorrect.


National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
As of July 16, 2022, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is now available by simply dialing 988. The previous number, 1-800-273-8255, will remain active.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I think these are women who have practiced smiling in a way that they think is the most flattering. It's not that they aren't smiling, but they are controlling the smile.

Our young niece does that. To me, she always looks like she's faking her smile, even if I'm there and know she is truly happy.

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The smiles are one thing, but this post has become a Rorschach test, it seems.


POMTL, I was thinking the same thing!



I think these are women who have practiced smiling in a way that they think is the most flattering. It's not that they aren't smiling, but they are controlling the smile.


Agreed.

As presenters of some form or another, they're expected to flash a big/broad toothy smile on command, and frequently, so 'practiced' is an apt word.

Their smiles might be different in a setting where they're comfortable and at ease, and having a good/great time.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.