approvingly

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“There’s a shot in here where he lifts his boot on the table and the camera spins with him. He smiled approvingly when I blocked it and played to the camera. He knew,” Kahn wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

They went with serve in the third set and Shelton did his best to feed off what he has approvingly called a "rowdy" Melbourne crowd.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

He has approvingly quoted Gustave Flaubert’s line that by “gazing down into the black pit at one’s feet, one remains calm.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

But the very first people White thanked from the Mar-a-Lago stage last week, with the newly minted president-elect looking approvingly over his shoulder and the cameras beaming him around the world, were the Nelk Boys.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

“Good, honest labor,” Lady Constance said approvingly as she gazed into her vanity mirror.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood