straight-faced
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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
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
This five-performance power punch ends as every performance should — with Charli XCX, who’s straight-faced and hidden behind straight-edged sunglasses, giving a nod of approval.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
Miller and then Taylor-Johnson approach the part straight-faced, playing someone who loves animals and hunts only those he deems predators, like mob bosses imprisoned in deepest Siberia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
And he said it so straight-faced, but he had to be joking.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
