straight-faced

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Straight-faced nasal Comic Don Adams plays Idiot Agent Maxwell Smart, an 0 bungling desperately to become an 007.

From Time Magazine Archive

Campbell Bascom Slemp, 72, one-time White House secretary to Calvin Coolidge, longtime GOPolitico; of heart disease; in Knoxville, Tenn. Straight-faced, high-collared Bascom Slemp promised Coolidge he would write no intimate memoirs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Straight-faced the London Daily Telegraph: "The duke was none the worse for his experience."

From Time Magazine Archive

If I had to say what my marks meant, it would be this: Straight-faced guy looks at his reflection in a still pond.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Straight-faced, Alexander and Cassiopeia pretended to take off their ears and hand them over.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood