The Baroness killed the rho-fietd, shut the rest of the systems down, and sat staring at the dead control panel with an abstracted smile.

I shall wonder about it in my bath** Mrs. Oliver gave him an abstracted smile and relapsed into her preoccupations.

She glanced around, an abstracted smile on her lips-- and froze.

The feeling might have been caused only by the checker's rather narrow features, his icy blue gaze and abstracted smile.

Santerese leaned back with an abstracted smile as a waiter appeared with a platter of tapas.

When they had both finished, he sat quietly for a moment, staring at nothing then shook himself, looking up with an abstracted smile.

Perhaps that was why people who talked to themselves usually had an abstracted smile: they had accepted they were stark raving mad, loony tunes, round the twist.

The Harper gave him an abstracted smile and nodded for him to pay attention.

I folded up the note, gave Mrs Wardell an abstracted smile, and went back downstairs and out into the street.

He gave her an abstracted smile and she said hurriedly, "Thank you for my lunch, I did enjoy it.