"The easy way out is to write incredibly slow music, but with a pulse," he said with an abashed grin, as if owning up to raiding the cookie jar.

He gave her an abashed grin.

He gave F'lar a rather abashed grin.

He answered her droll smile with an abashed grin.

"After all, sir," Gawaine added with a rather abashed grin, "you will still have your knives, if I fail."

Salveter gave Vance an abashed grin.

'Ain't never been in one of these fancy closed-in autos before,' he confessed with an abashed grin, and was fascinated by the sun roof.

Smith turned around with an abashed grin.

Conrad paused; Dom- inic tried and failed to bite back an abashed grin.

The paying customers - and boy, do they pay - were not in a benign mood, unleashing more than a few boos at the captain as he missed his first eight shots and stood around during a timeout with an abashed grin.