She gave Katanji a motherly smile and probably meant it.

She had been a nice-looking older woman with a motherly smile.

Octavia, taking his blood pressure, gave him a motherly smile.

"Well, don't forget your old friends while you're doing it," she said, giving him her shining, motherly smile.

She gave him a pat on the shoulder, a motherly smile.

She offers a motherly smile, then takes her place at the podium.

She returned his dark look with an almost motherly smile.

That motherly smile came onto her face again, indulgent and iron at the same time.

"You're the most pitiful person in the place," she said with a motherly smile.

She did not realize how indescribably beautiful her motherly smile made her look.