Dad just sat silent and straight-faced, not angry, not disappointed.
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It's dry, straight-faced, and not for the weak of heart.
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He was much better at being straight-faced than I was.
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Sanders's tweeted reply was completely straight-faced as well: Game on.
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In the photo, a straight-faced Philipps poses against a fence.
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"It's been a real launching pad for whites," Galifianakis says straight-faced.
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"How often would you like me to attend?" she enquired, straight faced.
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"That's what I like about you, Pee-wee," he says, straight-faced.
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They're straight-faced and dirty, looking like a rogue gang from Mad Max.
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I was completely straight-faced about the whole story, and people were surprised.
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A straight-faced Mark Zuckerberg denying Facebook has a problem with fake news.
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The most frustrating part of Wu Assassins, though, is its straight-faced grimness.
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Nothing directed my attention; no caption was straight-faced; no comparisons were prescribed.
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"I swear to god I can smell the TV," she said, completely straight-faced.
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There was no pity in "Mama Tried," in other words, only straight-faced honesty.
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Sarah Paulson is fantastic as Marcia Clark, the chain-smoking, straight-faced district attorney.
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"You would have to ask them about that," Dean Daniel said, almost straight-faced.
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"I have no obligation to be honest with the media," Lewandowski said straight-faced.
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It could be a straight-faced but surreal early film homage, like Guy Maddin's Seances.
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"They killed a bird in front of me," Jelzy says to the camera, straight-faced.
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It could use a few risks, and maybe a little less straight-faced, aching sincerity.
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He delivered remarks at each hearing straight-faced and emphasized the need for hard facts.
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"At this point, I can't imagine any straight-faced musical using one," said Mr. Maslon.
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Even with the show wrapped, Offerman is still associated with Swanson's gruff, straight-faced humor.
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The festival will include plenty of straight-faced homage mixed with modern-day star power.
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Ms. Oyeyemi writes about ghosts and tyrants in faraway lands with a straight-faced confidence.
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These straight-faced Cantonese studies worked out better than Mr. Donnelly's halting excursions into Sichuan.
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A good indicator is how quickly you can go silent and straight-faced after a laugh.
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Clark delivers the song straight-faced, dead-on, wearing a more brilliant color in each take.
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Both are set in post-war countries that regarded themselves, straight-faced, as the defenders of freedom.
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He's bouncing around like a dodgem off the assembled youths; three police officers watch him, straight-faced.
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And Jason Statham is certainly acting like he's in one of his many straight-faced action movies.
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Their straight-faced performances are entertaining even when the film around them is just lurching along clumsily.
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Christopher, straight-faced on a monitor, asks Black Kevin if he really ever believed in all that.
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That isn't just an anatomical gag; it's a familiar Trek moment, reconsidered and recast as straight-faced absurdism.
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But it still has his distinctive voice, a mixture of straight-faced absurdity and broad, outsized self-delusion.
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"I remember John and Lou very straight-faced saying, 'There will be absolutely no drugs,'" Ms. Phillips said.
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Think of them as the low-budget zombie flick that breaks up the straight-faced vampire movie marathon.
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The visuals are straight-faced, but there's a knowingness to them that keeps them from being too academic.
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Straight-faced, he claimed there're seldom side effects from plassing, that he could go hiking or backpacking right afterward.
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It has a better handle on its source material than just about any straight-faced adaptation could ever manage.
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Most importantly, it's unabashedly earnest about its straight-faced, snark-free belief that people are inherently capable of goodness.
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American Vandal's straight-faced satirical trailer does borrow from Making a Murderer in one way that's a little uncomfortable.
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Perez's straight-faced delivery balances out Faris' kooky performance and, unsurprisingly, the duo hardly followed much of a script.
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The results were ground-level, straight-faced documentationof rap as it grew, at different paces, all around the country.
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On average, the "game face" group completed 4.13 more puzzle pieces in five minutes than their straight-faced counterparts.
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Straight-faced and stiff-lipped, Ms. Knox dodged flashbulbs as a coterie of bodyguards kept the press at bay.
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The more straight-faced sequences, however, feel weightless and forgettable, leaving me impatient for the one-liners to start again.
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But Fassbender's patrician bearing and straight-faced delivery makes him seem more weary than angry, and more lost than nihilistic.
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It's strange, straight-faced, but a little bit funny too—a sentiment at the background of all of his work.
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After all, when the notoriously straight-faced designer christens you an honorary Spice Girl it really doesn't get much more official.
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Absorbing and interacting with the news every day can turn straight-faced information into an affecting deluge of gloom and doom.
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The tiramisù, shaped into a dome and sheathed in a dark chocolate shell, does a straight-faced impression of a tartufo.
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But this documentary takes a straight-faced journalistic approach, carefully building a narrative of the killer Andrew Cunanan's motive and methods.
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As a new extradimensional threat arises, Mr. Modine's conspiracist scientist is replaced by Dr. Owens (a credibly straight-faced Paul Reiser).
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At times it recalls Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich in its straight-faced evocation of a world hauled down a rabbit hole.
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Plenty of people equate horror with straight-faced scares, as if its inherent value can be measured in ounces of cold sweat.
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"You're one of those guys that say, 'Man, that's bull crap the Patriots keep winning,&apos" Shelton tells a straight-faced Adkins.
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"I feel like that is where this is headed," he said, as a typically straight-faced Ford cracked up next to him.
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The Spirits Within bludgeons its audience with straight-faced elucidation until an overwhelming numbness sets in and you just don't care anymore.
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The band appear straight-faced in the heads of sunflowers and by the end, even the pigeons are worthy of an examination.
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His dedication to continuing to fire off some one-liner every few hours, and his straight-faced commitment to the bit—staggering.
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A hidden camera captured their bemused and irritated reactions as a straight-faced cashier acted as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
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Straight-faced and lightly stirring the contents of her teacup, Bow informs Dre that Zoey, too, has crossed the threshold into sexual activity.
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Trebek, who is known for his straight-faced but witty banter with contestants, made a joke about his vow to survive the disease.
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In the shot, which doubles as the couple's Instagram debut, Porowski and Lehnhoff stand straight-faced in matching gray suits and hold hands.
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While I was at their house, Hield's grandparents hardly said a single word to me, and mostly eyed me with straight-faced skepticism.
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The specials deliver on uncomplicated promises: the Crème-A-Licious, while difficult to order straight-faced, is indeed, as advertised, like a Creamsicle.
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"We want Adam to be a hero 'cause right now he's just an athlete," the Dancing with the Stars alum says totally straight-faced.
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He is magnetic, switching effortlessly from straight-faced to farcical and adding a well-timed "yeah" or sideways look to provoke yet more laughter.
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Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov were straight-faced as they shook hands upon arrival, before heading off together toward a meeting room.
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On June 24th, it heads to American theaters, where viewers can judge for themselves whether it's straight-faced black satire or Grand Guignol horror.
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Their husbands left the White House moments later, looking similarly straight-faced as they got into a separate car also headed for the Capitol.
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The straight-faced Andrada also admitted what was clear from the start of the Games, that volunteers had failed to turn up in large numbers.
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The exhibition of the work, on loan from its anonymous German buyer, finished last Sunday, transforming attendance figures at this normally straight-faced German museum.
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" And when someone asked the boy what he thought when Kiffin gave him the visor, he said, straight-faced, "I didn't think much of it.
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There are no sacred cows in Waititi's movie, and fans who prefer their superheroes straight-faced and without meta-commentary might chafe at its irreverence.
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But its most straight-faced and important storylines are generally about pastors, veterans, farmers, and other positive rural American archetypes protecting their way of life.
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"Is this your house?" a puzzled Horowitz asks a straight-faced Kendrick after finding photos of Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds displayed around the house.
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It is pretty hard to make a straight-faced case in support of a mandatory sentence of life without parole for simple possession of marijuana.
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Her comic style varies nicely from straight-faced to vivacious, from deadpan to a pan that is very much alive, especially her irresistible, maniacal grin.
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You can hear these diverse and straight faced influences on the album's first single "You Can Buy My Love," but the effect is still uplifting.
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And cutting against the desperation and violence that frame it, "Saul," in its dark, straight-faced way, is one of the funniest dramas on television.
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Hill's novel is a fairly straightforward (and straight-faced) reimagining of the classic Gothic potboiler, told in wintry retrospect by a now middle-aged narrator.
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The fearmongering grew, sometimes perpetuated by authorities themselves but largely by the media, which has tended to report the clown hoaxes with straight-faced solemnity.
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People clearly aren't sure what to make of its weird blend of straight-faced Next Generation-era Trek pastiche and MacFarlane's particularly lowbrow brand of humor.
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He's funny, as someone whose career is grounded in dry, straight-faced humor should be, but he's also sincere, stoic, and serious, not a constant entertainer.
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"Adam would say, 'This is exactly what I expected," Ward, 71, told PEOPLE of his costar's penchant for straight-faced but tongue-in-cheek self-aggrandizing.
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When his minister for health, Patricia Garcia, said the decision would be challenged by the government, he said straight-faced, "First you better ask the Cardinal".
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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have been forced to make a straight-faced apology video by the Australian government for breaching biosecurity laws in the country.
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And one really has to watch the closing outtakes to fully appreciate Sellers' straight-faced performance, as well as the restraint of those playing opposite him.
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Before this straight-faced young man was playing a plastic surgeon on a hit medical drama, he was just another kid growing up in Chicago, Illinois.
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The United States is the defending champion in the team event, so it was no wonder Karolyi remained straight-faced as she discussed Douglas this week.
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Two tall wire fences, a few feet apart, and a sprinkling of straight-faced, machine-gun-toting, uniformed guards provide the promise of a secure border.
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Every October, the security guards host a bonfire and recount, straight-faced, tales of disappearing footprints, disembodied wails and an elevator that operated on its own.
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As for all that brittle, passion-concealing wit and straight-faced deception, wasn't that the stuff of old-guard West End masters like Coward and Rattigan?
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"Guys what are we doing tonight?" she captioned the snap, where she wore a pumping top with her hair up and posed straight-faced, holding two bottles.
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Later, the two men inspected a cordon of bearskin-hatted guardsmen, making small talk with the straight-faced men as they stood in the mild London sun.
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And then there are ones that seem both straight-faced and terrible — like the nuclear waste obstacle course that could (but probably won't) line our southern border.
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"Guys what are we doing tonight?" she captioned the snap, where she wore a pumping top with her hair up and posed straight-faced, holding two bottles.
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But it feels polished to a fault, packed with straight-faced sincerity instead of Will Smith's smarmy self-satisfaction or Tommy Lee Jones' crisp, brutally insensitive professionalism.
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Everything from the sprawling action sequences, to the resounding orchestral score, and even the straight-faced seriousness of his apes speaks to his respect for this property.
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A photo from Trump's meeting showed a grinning President next to a straight-faced Pope, however other photos from the visit showed the two in good spirits.
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Shelby is a sardonically sweet Sarah Paulson in a chintzy documentary's dramatic reenactments and a straight-faced Lily Rabe who provides the doc's voiceover in the present.
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In a new video, Billboard dance editor Matt Medved conducts a straight-faced interview with the humorist and his hype man, the New York DJ Maachew Bentley.
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Wearing wallpaper and wainscoting and pressed tin, Red Hook Tavern does a straight-faced impression of a whiskey-simmered New York corner bar of a certain age.
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They were very straight-faced until one of them began to break up and smile at me, and they all slowly revealed that they enjoyed the film.
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"Guys what are we doing tonight?" she captioned the photo, in which she wore a pumping top with her hair up and posed straight-faced, holding two bottles.
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For far more straight-faced military drama than "68 Whiskey" offers, consider turning to "Jarhead," which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier fighting in the first gulf war.
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But the straight-faced, upfront assertion that it's all true gives the film — an ironic crime story about a kidnapping gone wrong — a subtle sense of real-life tragedy.
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It's all ridiculous, but all the more so because characters keep explaining it with the straight-faced seriousness of documentary scientists laying out the latest developments in genetic studies.
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Considerations of things meta, in any case, take a back seat to the straight-faced pursuit of silliness via tatty hand puppets, stencil projections and the occasional homemade diorama.
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It really does have it all: the most gonzo, acid-fried premise, a straight faced spoken word monologue about discovering the earth after it has been destroyed by man.
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We rarely get to see Sandler do this kind of straight-faced comedy, and he's so good in The Meyerowitz Stories that he deserves the chance to do more.
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But just as the ironic eroticism of Ms. Yuskavage's evocations of hippie-era free love differs from Gérôme's straight-faced Orientalism, so, too, do the markets for their works.
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But: Mr. Williams's straight-faced reaction, in which he appeared to be doing his best to hold back whatever he badly wished to say, was impressive in its restraint.
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Yet this broad comedy approaches the idea of mutant oppression more intelligently and with more nuance than any of the straight-faced entries in the main X-Men film series.
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If High-Rise weren't so straight-faced and ruthless, it would look like a Terry Gilliam movie, with a laughable manic anarchy lurking on the backside of every calm conversation.
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She seems sure of herself — which I found evidenced in her straight-faced attempt to sell Baby a hideous gray wig — and intentional about the relationships she chooses to build.
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Quite the contrary, both 'Melo and La La were straight-faced, but walked in together -- he even held the door for her -- as they entered with 10-year-old Kiyan.
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It's a modest but well-executed improvement on an already-solid formula, an attempt at straight-faced political commentary that never delves too deeply into what it's trying to say.
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The Tumblr meme, called Texts from Hillary, employed a photo of Clinton, in sunglasses, straight-faced and peering at her BlackBerry, in conjunction with photos of other people texting her.
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But in his more straight-faced criticisms of the company, he has laid out plans to pursue legislation requiring the company to repay tax benefits it received for offshore workers.
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Tesla starts like a straight-faced biographic film about the 19th-century war of the currents, with Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) famously refusing to give Tesla a promised $50,000 payment.
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It was astonishing, both the straight-faced audacity of Republicans feigning outrage over profanity, and the gormless clucking of pundits comparing Tlaib's swearword to Trump's violent misogyny and racist demagogy.
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We live in a world where formerly unattainable futuristic touchstones like "flying cars" and autonomous vehicles are being treated with straight-faced sincerity by some of the biggest companies in world.
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With this mindset, during and after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, wonks made the straight-faced argument that the uninsured were "gaming" the system to get free medical care.
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By using an inverted perspective, which can literally everything we are seeing upside down, she is able to get at issues of conformity, hierarchy, and power relationships with straight-faced glee.
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This straight-faced but enjoyably silly film deals with fame, power, and celebrity impersonations It's actually a good thing that the filmmakers behind Elvis & Nixon don't take their story too seriously.
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Where the first film was content with straight-faced silliness, Zoolander 2 tries to blow the same silliness out to epic, world-spanning proportions, and it just winds up feeling overstretched.
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FYI, a straight-faced Smith said he was gonna bust up Irvin the next time they cross paths ... but Mike claims they were just putting on a show for the cameras.
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David Weigel's "The Show That Never Ends" is a new history of the genre written by an ardent, straight-faced defender who also understands what is most outlandishly entertaining about it.
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"Here are the great parliamentary fields of the Thingvellir," he said at one point, referring to Iceland's famous early-medieval parliament, and gestured straight-faced toward a wall of white cloud.
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"Recently, there has been a big outcry by all my old friends about my arrogance," he says, and the excellent Mr. Wolff makes this straight-faced admission both hilarious and charming.
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Much like Deadpool before it, Detective Pikachu uses Reynolds' uncanny ability to take on wildly silly content, and play it both with straight-faced commitment and like an emotional force of nature.
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How, after that campaign, can Ivanka Trump make a straight-faced argument that she didn't know what the rules were governing the use of a personal email account when conducting government business?
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I have no idea if this interpretation is correct, but the clues are there: straight-faced nostalgia ("Last Runaway"), tying up of loose ends ("Miss You"), and a truly shocking finale ("Golgotha").
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Like Ms. Backhaus's superior Off Broadway hit "Men on Boats" — a straight-faced, gender-reversed retelling of a chapter in 19th-century American exploration — "Wives" is a gleeful work of historical subversion.
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Titled "A Series of Unfortunate Events," the show features the credited Lemony Snicket as a straight-faced narrator, played perfectly by Patrick Warburton, who seems to be channeling "The Twilight Zone's" Rod Serling.
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The porg face-off is fundamentally about whether comic relief and cuteness belong in Star Wars, or whether the series should belong more exclusively to the serious, straight-faced likes of Darth Vader.
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It is not totally straight-faced — there is some wild humor in "Smile," a fantasy of revenge against a man who suggests that Jackie could look happier — but neither is it a joke.
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Getting in on the joke in the manner of, say, a Riverdale would mean embracing the inherent camp of the genre — and that would ruin the straight-faced coziness of the whole thing.
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The Order would do better if it just let its villains embrace full over-the-top campiness rather than trying to present them as mysterious and cool by keeping them straight-faced and grim.
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"Right now you might think that what Columbia Records does in Nashville is to promote the careers of mainstream country, radio-friendly artists," said Mr. Secor, 250 and straight-faced beneath a handlebar mustache.
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" There's "Why Don't the Beautiful Cry," a genuinely pretty ballad, that stays straight-faced until Hawkins extends the question: "Why don't the beautiful cry[...] Even if you poke them / Poke them in the eye.
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The CSU's most vocal antagonist -- there are several in the chorus -- is Horst Seehofer, a lumbering, straight-faced bear of a man, who is Merkel's interior minister, as well as head of the CSU.
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Some have asserted, straight-faced, that President Trump is simply continuing Mr. Obama's policies — arrests are up but deportations are down under the 45th president — but it sure doesn't feel like it in Texas.
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Especially since it's looking like the next Final Destination movie may never happen, and we're in dire need of a quality horror film that's not trying to be too straight-faced about its work.
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The architects of this inanity were not only completely straight-faced about the societal benefits that could be reaped by a defecating seagull drone, they even decided their work might be worthy of an award.
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Finally, as I mentioned earlier, I have a Virgo moon, so a beer or three only accentuates my straight-faced, even solemn earth sign tendencies (roughly translated: I am not a "hit" in large groups).
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Watch the entire clip, including Adele's straight-faced consumption of raw wheat grass and the reveal of the mystery purse's contents (and be prepared to love Adele even more — if such a thing is possible).
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No one — not Jorge the bartender, not Chris Harrison the straight-faced ghoul, not the bird that tried to convince Ashley to murder somebody one time — could have seen it coming: The Massacre in Paradise.
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This isn't the passive, solitary grief of classic Beyonce tracks like "Listen" or "Halo" – this is unapologetic rage and destruction: the kind that wants to bludgeon through the straight-faced restraint, unleashing the carnage beneath.
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"Cutting against the desperation and violence that frame it, 'Saul,' in its dark, straight-faced way, is one of the funniest dramas on television," Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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The outrageous opening act feels like the kind of straight-faced absurdism Waititi developed in projects like the improv vampire comedy What We Do In The Shadows and the unexpected family comedy Hunt For The Wilderpeople.
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Mr Trump's claim of "absolute immunity" from all "judicial process" in Vance—which included a straight-faced claim that he could shoot someone and escape investigation while president—has scant precedent or reasoning to recommend it.
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Watch: 10 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask An Undercover Drugs Cop Probably the only straight-faced lie my mother ever told me was that my dad had died in a car accident before I was born.
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It is slightly bizarre in sanitation meetings when you look around at straight-faced people who talk earnestly about faeces and discuss the clearance between the toilet seat and divider that separates the solid and liquid waste.
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With a president thin-skinned enough to rage publicly in response to Saturday Night Live sketches and an administration ridiculous enough that straight-faced weekly recaps sound like parody, the conversation is less silly than it is repetitive.
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The commercial centers on a folksy-seeming Organic Valley farmer named Gerrit van Tol, who delivers a straight-faced parody of every artisan-brand cliche in the book along his quest to open the fake pop-up boutique.
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This century, a camp sensibility has yielded blunt-edged spoofs like Lesbian Vampire Killers (2009), but straight-faced approaches have turned out even worse, with The Moth Diaries and 2004's Eternal leaning on all the expected references.
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Bundled up on a couch at Christmas, they converse by exchanging lyrics from "There's No Business Like Show Business" in a serious, straight-faced way, the way other families might talk about sports, politics, or the unseasonably good weather.
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She finally finds herself on planet Earth—or C-53 as the straight-faced Kree call it—in the year 1995, after a Kree extraction mission has gone awry and launched her into the urban metropolis of Los Angeles.
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After escaping Liverpool at 17 to study economics at the London School of Economics ("My grandfather said that it was a pity that I didn't get into university," he says, straight-faced), Isaacson set about a career in acting.
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Warp Records' 'Artificial Intelligence' series had presented new forms in techno, creating opportunities for like-minded producers largely from the UK and Europe pushing these sounds to curious places often distant from the straight-faced seriousness of Detroit artists.
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If the article was straight-faced, it is because Playboy has long been keen on the idea of itself as a champion of women's rights: it describes itself as "a vanguard for political, sexual and economic freedom for almost 60 years".
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Judging from the opening tomb-robbing action and some early banter, Kurtzman and company seem to want to position Nick as an Indiana Jones figure, a tough man with a vulnerable streak and a knack for straight-faced knockabout wit.
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Director: Fede Álvarez Writer: Fede Álvarez and Rodo Sayagues Remake of: The Evil Dead (1981) Evil Dead doesn't have quite the whimsy (or schlock factor) of the cult-classic original, but for a straight-faced adaptation, it's pretty damn good.
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But as with other straight-faced genre parodies like Shoot 'Em Up and Drive Angry, the more-is-more approach doesn't supply many real stakes for the characters, beyond the momentary question of how a given chase will come out.
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The Street Fighter RPG we actually have is a marvel of straight-faced ludicrousness, the ultimate earnest martial arts movie which says that, yes, the ninjas, Thai crime ring dabbling in psychics and Soviet wrestlers should all be taken deathly seriously.
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This is pretty much a no-brainer of a track to be honest if you're into this stuff—straight-faced vocals, big driving beat and a high-pitched synth line that dances about like the Halloween theme at a nineties disco.
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The action is similarly straight-faced in a laughable way: when that jet ski goes flying over Yamuna's head, it passes him in slow motion, trailing CGI water in a bit of balletic choreography that's charming and hilariously excessive at the same time.
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Miyazaki meets Pixar in this steampunk adventure Read enough Franco-Belgian comics, especially in the fantasy / science-fiction / horror genre, and you'll start to recognize a shared tone: a certain mix of straight-faced humor and a wild, almost improvised-feeling narrative.
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As a wife, she couldn't be in control of her own finances, couldn't transfer money to family abroad, had to lie on her back and suffer through sex straight-faced, or fake her orgasms loudly so she's known as a voracious lover.
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As such, Groff is of a piece with a production, which also features a winningly cast Tammy Blanchard and Christian Borle, that understands that camp is most successful when it's played with straight-faced sincerity, instead of a wink and a smirk.
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"In the census case it's really hard to come up with a straight-faced argument in the face of evidence that while the Trump administration said they were doing this to protect Hispanic voters they were actually doing it to hurt Hispanic voters," says Hasen.
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Much as with What We Do In The Shadows, Waititi's humor here is all about perverse good cheer in the face of self-created crisis, impotence in the face of disaster, and straight-faced laugh-out-loud surprise humor that frequently comes from unexpected places.
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The clip, directed by Jonah Hill, is a tribute to New York City in all its drollness, featuring a straight-faced Ezra Koenig around a handful of the city's staples—the Jewish gourmet Zabar's, as well as an uptown deli, and a grimacing Jerry Seinfeld.
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In its first era of popularity, it was all pop and pulp, but now it seems reserved for the task of adding just the slightest bit of a smirk to extremely straight-faced endeavors: elegant magazines, important books, experimental theater, and $80 ceramic pipes.
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TMZ Sports has video of Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley leaving LAX moments ago following a 13-hour flight out of Shanghai ... the guys stay straight-faced and mostly silent as they're hit with a barrage of questions and camera flashes from reporters.
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But as weird as the trailer is, with its blurry CGI fur, oversized set pieces, and completely literal, straight-faced commitment to the concept of singing cats, there's one very important thing you have to know: Judging by the trailer, this movie, relatively speaking, isn't that weird.
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Maya Rudolph appeared early in the season as Jake and Holt's Witness Protection contact; the incomparably funny Andy Daly (Review) showed up as yet another Holt nemesis (the man loves a rivalry); and L. Scott Caldwell (Lost) even dropped by to play Holt's perfectly straight-faced mother.
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It's a strange premise fit for a fairy tale, but Lanthimos plays it straight-faced and tragic, using strange metaphors and a dose of looming inevitability to mock the ways society judges people who aren't in relationships, and enforces a limited set of norms around what "relationship" means.
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And though it's not totally tangible on record, her flair for fantasy—one light-up headdress I've seen her sport onstage has to be the most intricate stage costuming of any Brooklyn techno act—injects this often straight-faced corner of electronic music with a needed dose of surreality.
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Fellowes and his production team referenced taking life-changing journeys to Black Rock City for Burning Man in interviews, but last Thursday wrote, straight-faced, about how "as imitation (being the sincerest form of flattery) proves, [Secret Garden Party] has set the bar for everyone else going forward".
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Unfortunately, with the whole skin-tight-dress situation, any kind of adult diaper proves impossible, which left her with really only one option:"I think if it's an emergency, I would pee my pants and then have my sister wipe my leg up," she said, completely straight-faced.
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" Lavrov, speaking in the aftermath of Russia's attempts to disrupt the US election through a series of cyber-hacking attempts, made a straight-faced appeal for "rules of behaving responsibly in the digital sphere," adding, "We prepared a draft of the universal convention on counteracting cybercrime including hacking.
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Some are playfully self-aware — like Bruce M. Sherman's pair of clay figures designed to cradle balls of stone or Katherine Gray and Eric Huebsch's faux snow globe containing a can of beer — while others are more straight-faced and formal, like Jessica Hans's elegantly glazed ceramic flower.
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He and his inseparable, grim-visaged security gurus (played with straight-faced hilarity by Tom Lipinski and Brian Wiles) have been struggling to stop Dr. Gilbert, the oncologist Axe employed to test the potency of the poison used to spike Ice Juice, from making a deal to testify.
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He's left mutilated, but instead of being devastated, he takes his wounds with a goofy, upbeat attitude and some lines that are probably meant to be dramatic, but that come across as whimsical and straight-faced-surreal, in a mode familiar from the classic British science-fiction series Red Dwarf.
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I think it's particularly fascinating that a book series whose resistance movement was so frequently compared to Occupy Wall Street spawned a movie franchise that yielded absolutely straight-faced marketing tie-ins that aligned so unironically with the brazen capitalism of the Capitol that they caused fan protests in response.
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For the most part, the videos were straight-faced playthroughs of the Uncharted franchise, but the attention Chip and Ironicus pay to stories, details, and character interactions means that watching those videos were more like listening in on a smart, critical conversations and less like watching a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 episode.
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Over the series' eight episodes, Zeman's narrative, tone, and editing style shift from annoying theatrics and frustrating leaps from one unsourced hypothesis to the next into what it should have been all along: a sober, mostly straight-faced attempt to answer a much larger question about class and crime among America's underprivileged communities.
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Watching them act out their regrets and their indomitability while Reeves glowers flatly in the background, it's hard not to see John Wick as a sort of lethal Forrest Gump, stumbling straight-faced from one elaborate crisis to the next without ever changing expression or understanding the impact he's having on the world around him.
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Hathaway, in particular, has long been saddled with a reputation for being "affected and actressy," but her Lip Sync Battle appearance — an utterly straight-faced, tighty-whitey-clad homage to Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball" — leaned into that supposed overly dramatic affect in a way that might even have convinced some people to rethink their Hathahate.
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In a blind viewing, the average cinephile could probably identify it as a Coen Brothers picture, because it has so many of their signatures: serious people taking ridiculous situations with grave equanimity, straight-faced film references, a stable of distractingly famous people taking on cameo-level roles, and George Clooney playing an affable, noisy nitwit.
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" On gender, at least, embarrassment creeps into the report: "On our side, one cannot look at the number of women hired as Party staff or included in high level campaign messaging and strategy sessions and make a straight-faced argument that we've done enough to include a group that represents approximately 52% of the vote.
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As the foreman announced the verdict, the jury's nine men and three women — including a mathematician, postal worker and secondary school teacher — sat straight-faced, revealing little emotion, with only a few glancing in the direction of Cardinal Pell, who gazed at the floor, his thinning gray hair swept sideways over his balding head.
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Homecoming makes a bit of a straight-faced joke out of the small scale of Toomes' operations: eight years after the events of The Avengers, his men are still peddling their supervillain gear out of the backs of trucks, including to a consternated wannabe hood named Aaron (Donald Glover) who was just looking for a simple handgun.
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But given that lying is pretty much the business model of Trumpism, and that a whole battery of senior White House aides, from Kellyanne Conway to Sean Spicer to Dark Lord Bannon himself, are enthusiastic masters of straight-faced deceit, it's unlikely that this sort of semantic breakthrough will make much of an impression on the body politic.
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On the side of the law (and it's a sooty side), we have Mr. Goodman (in surprisingly one-note form) as the conniving, none-too-bright sheriff; Micah Stock, doing his eccentric straight-faced thing as a cop with a penchant for amateur psychology; and Dann Florek, who has some great pompous flourishes as the corrupt mayor.
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Things like the lush foliage in "Alameda Light" or the wrinkled tarp thrown over a car in "Dogpatch Wrap" might seem to offer the artist more occasion to let himself go, but in fact he records those less regular objects with the same straight-faced fidelity he applies to the shifting gray-tone planes of a sidewalk or wall.
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The inner suffering that Jia describes in Ash Is Purest White can feel as heavy as a stone, but his scene-building is peppered with grim humor, from a straight-faced ballroom dance routine during a gangster's wake to a series of hilarious scams that find a desperate Qiao brilliantly preying on male stupidity and lechery.
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The much-threatened courtroom drama over Celeste's husband's death never fully materialized, and the reveal of the oft-hinted-at details behind the death of Mary Louise's other son turned the in-court boxing match between the two women into the kind of over-the-top soap opera theatrics this show has never quite learned how to balance with its straight-faced tone and deeply earnest acting.
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His life is interrupted by two great catastrophes: a deadly avalanche and World War II. (Egger fights on the German side and spends several years as a P.O.W., but Mr. Seethaler, sticking to his plan to make his protagonist a blank slate, gives him no political thoughts.) Though Mr. Seethaler's style is generally straight-faced and occasionally sentimental, the novel has moments of dark humor.
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Other times, I understand that while I'm a pretty straight-faced person and try to keep emotions out of my decisions when deciding on policy, a lot of people are driven by emotions and fears and desires, and so I try to make sure that when I'm talking about any issue, I also speak to the emotions and not negate them as if they don't matter.
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