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1. ’ I replied with as deadpan a face as I can manage … making her laugh
2. I kept my face deadpan for a moment as I sipped at my now lukewarm tea, but I could not hold the pose
3. “Oh no! You realize we don’t have insurance?” she said in such a deadpan way that he wasn’t aware she was joking till she started laughing
4. “Oh,” I said, numbed by her deadpan presentation, and I turned away from her
5. Obama, dour, deadpan, and soulless, with an arrogant tilt of the head, a great orator? Is stroking with soothing words those whose wonderful country he intends to drag down into sociofascist poverty quite the same thing? Is a wigwagging mist of rhetoric, soaring from alternate TelePrompTers, if seemingly enticing upon emission, but vaporizing when pursued for substance, great oratory? There must be another word for it
6. The deadpan look in his eyes startled her
7. “Knives,” he finally said, deadpan
8. "Quite fetching, Miss," he replied deadpan
9. "Got a big hat with a feather?" he asked, deadpan
10. deadpan manner in which the puns are delivered
11. You should be,” she said deadpan
12. ” Said Laplante, deadpan
13. ” Said Stimson, deadpan
14. ” Said Vance, deadpan
15. ’ She’d seen a movie, deadpan melodrama, that‘s the most
16. She imitated the deadpan tone, smiling: ‘Fine
17. character from the movie Matrix with a deadpan look on his
18. Paul seemed to have a deadpan look on his face
19. Both of his parents had deadpan looks on their faces
20. Correct?” the man said, looking deadpan into the teen’s eyes
21. About a millisecond later, when James moved the sheet a couple of feet downward, everyone present could see Paul’s lifeless dark-brown eyes staring deadpan at the ceiling above and that his cheeks had already begun to turn various shades of bluish-green
22. Get excited! Get expressive! Break out of just that deadpan
23. ” Hunter told Sophie, with a commendably deadpan expression
24. Stripehead fixed them with a deadpan stare, and said, ‘Fuck off
25. Graham had the perfect deadpan face
26. Danny stared at him deadpan
27. She was completely serious, and almost unblinking in the deadpan stare she gave him
28. when mum answered the door, looked down at the road cones and said with a completely deadpan face: And I see you two haven't changed much either
29. “It does not happen to lots of guys,” said Victor, deadpan
30. He responses to Rose’s questions were worse than deadpan, worse than listless, worse than unenthusiastic
31. The woman looked at him with a deadpan expression
32. On the balcony next door, Al Ulbrickson, the Deadpan Kid, stood motionless, expressionless, a cigarette in his mouth
33. ‘Shelves,’ he said, deadpan
34. The cabbie’s expression in the rearview was deadpan
35. “If you must know,” I replied, deadpan, “for the past six months I’ve been having this torrid affair with Warren Jacobi
36. “Of course,” says Amin with a practiced deadpan
37. He looked up at me with his usual deadpan look
38. “I service the copiers at the embassy,” he said, deadpan
39. His name was included on the invitation, and when I glanced up at him, a smile flickered across his lips before he said with deadpan solemnity, “Unfortunately, I have a feeling I will be quite ill that evening and will have to send Flora and Rollo with my regrets
1. “Don’t be a booby, Sheriff,” deadpanned the child with surprising earnestness
2. ” Again he deadpanned them
3. “We find that the newsletters fail to offer advice consistent with market timing,” the authors deadpanned as only academics can