straight-faced
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About Gorsuch, specifically, I think that what I learned was that he’s great at playing that straight-faced man.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Throughout the history of popular culture, there have been many answers to the question “What’s in the Box?”—the title of the new Netflix game show hosted by a barely straight-faced Neil Patrick Harris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
“The album is not comedy,” he said, straight-faced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
But Schaffer’s take — not a new direction, but rather an ironically straight-faced reboot of the deadpan ZAZ style — supplies the well-trodden gag with a necessary contemporary jolt.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025
Samir turned back to the crowd and nodded at a straight-faced horseman, who said, “I heard about the Rogue Legion, and those guys in Khotan really hated the saddles you sold them.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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