| 单词 | straight face |
| 例句 | When she turned up at the next morning’s roll call, Marina must have had a hard time keeping a straight face. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We’re not, supposedly, big on torture in the civilized West—though whether we can say that with a straight face is an argument for another day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I didn’t know whether to laugh or be angry, but I managed to keep a straight face. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I try to keep a straight face, but I burst out laughing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z He keeps a straight face for a second, then laughs and unmutes the TV. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Then Christopher H., from the year above, said with a dead straight face: “Pity it’s on that bit of the elbow. Just about anywhere else, it wouldn’t matter.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing I was trying to keep a straight face, she giggled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And she always had a manic, surprised look in her eyes— that look people get when they can't keep a straight face. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The news was slow: a woman had had septuplets; bears, the New York Times reported with a straight face, were the main cause of car break-ins at Yosemite. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I never joke,” said Root, and he said it with a straight face. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He bent over to tie perfectly tied shoelaces and came up with a flushed but straight face. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Even the preacher couldn’t keep a straight face. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I tried to keep a straight face, but Lettie was looking at me so serious I couldn’t help grinning. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And in a voice oilier than the one before, he’d answer with a straight face, “From the Uglies.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "Yeah, I live on the second too," he said with a straight face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z How could I ask for “horse” with a straight face? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “You can’t expect me to keep a straight face about fathers and mothers. And w'ho’s going to get excited about a boy having a girl or not having her?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d kept a straight face, a cold one, since Crab pulled up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Minutes later she returned, wiping wetness from her cheeks, struggling to keep a straight face. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z With a straight face, Mr. Larson said, “You know, I’ve heard that, Phil. But it’s remarkable how many days I get by just fine without going to the office at all.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody would tell,” he asserted with a straight face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to keep a straight face and she does too, but soon we’re cracking up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I forgot all about it,” I said, trying to keep a straight face. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “It’s natural for a woman to put on a little weight after she’s had a baby,” said Sissy with a straight face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re better than a chorus,” I said softly, trying to keep a straight face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s like how I can’t figure out how any adult buys toilet paper with a straight face. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I’ve actually had to stop calling her Glamour Girl, because Sam gets confused and can’t keep a straight face whenever someone says her real name, so I call her Kennedy now. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Jazz and Doris nearly passed out from laughing so hard, but as the chef's assistant, I did my best to keep a straight face. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “Okay,” said Harry, walking up to Ron to get a better look at the glazed eyes and the pallid complexion, “okay...Say that again with a straight face.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He said when they told him that he could hardly keep a straight face. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to bite my tongue to keep a straight face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I believe you,” I said, trying to maintain a straight face myself. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Things were running in favor enough to add, with a straight face, “Hidden microphones?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He had trouble keeping a straight face when he called for new business. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Candace said, doing everything she could to keep a straight face. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I just stared right back at Tommy with a straight face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Standing in his underwear holding the notebook, he looked like somebody out of an old, funny movie and Brian had trouble keeping a straight face. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z My face was burning up like Ghost Rider’s fiery skull, but Elle kept a straight face as she turned back to study the photo in front of her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Smith kept an absolutely straight face: “All four of his legs are broken.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to hold a straight face, but I was sure I wasn't doing a good job. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Dexter looked at me with a straight face. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I nearly crack myself up with these but keep a straight face for the interrogation. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Hey, Mary,” Crab said, climbing out, a mug of coffee in hand, doing his best to keep a straight face. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z He would try to keep a straight face, even when we rushed into his arms and he had to hug all three of us at once. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “That’s all right, Padre,” he answered with mischievous merriment, trying hard to keep a straight face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “How can you possibly say ‘cowboy duties’ with a straight face?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He was loved for his wicked humor, delivered with a Buster Keaton straight face, and boundless generosity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Arturo looked right at her, struggling to keep a straight face. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I struggled to keep a straight face as I pictured Mother amidst the weeds, horseflies, and dead mice in our garden. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, dude, no more Finding Dory,” he says with a straight face. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I pull my book bag up over my shoulder and keep a straight face. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Piper tried to keep a straight face, but she made her eyes dance with mischief and humor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “His finest hour,” said Fred, unable to keep a straight face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Absolutely nothing,” I said with a straight face. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z "He's been gone," I explained, trying to keep a straight face. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He crossed his eyes and looked from me to Ellie with a straight face. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She tried to keep a straight face as she continued, “Black sheep are the ones black people count when they tryna get to sleep.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At first he tried to keep a straight face, but his mouth began to twitch, and his eyes began to roll. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z My brother Chris was having an especially hard time keeping a straight face. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “That’s easy,” I answer, with wide, soulful eyes and a totally straight face. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was all Matthias could do to keep a straight face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Keeping a very straight face, he held out the envelope to Hornet. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Jesse could hardly keep a straight face in class just trying to imagine what might be going on behind that angelic look of Leslie’s. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She keeps a straight face, but her sparkling eyes tell me she’s joking. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He tried to look stern, but as giggles bubbled around the hall, he had a hard time keeping a straight face. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And secondly, if she did see what she thought she was going to see, she wouldn't trust herself to keep a straight face. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z She went with “Al-ugh-ories,” presumably because she finds it difficult to utter the word allegory with a straight face. A Conversation With Nicole Eisenman and Grace Dunham 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The ability to fathom this threat is not as crucial as the ability to deliver such lines with a straight face. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But no matter how ludicrous the plot twists, the series kept a straight face. The TV Watch: After 8 Seasons, Kiefer Sutherland Hangs Up His Lethal Toys 2010-05-25T02:26:00Z Telling my children not to take drugs was hard to do with a straight face. Nikki Sixx: My family values 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Then he says about Kaitlyn, “It’s hard for her to open up” — and the fact that he said that with a straight face is a testament to Botox. 'The Bachelorette' Finale: Decision Day for Kaitlyn 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z “I woke up with power,” he told me with a straight face, referring to the election in which Richard Nixon won in a landslide. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Or that the group still keeps straight faces while dancing with canes. NKOTBSB: Boy band love 4-EVA 2011-06-08T21:56:00Z Swinton kept a straight face but the news conference erupted in laughter. Who's the mystery actor in horror remake Suspiria? Not me, says... 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z But the two wide receivers took the opposite approach from Howard and kept a straight face, as if they weren’t being watched by more than 22,000 fans. At the Bulls game with 'The Dilemma' director Ron Howard 2011-01-10T17:56:41Z “She kept going, and she kept a straight face, and she kept talking. She didn’t stop one time. It was a brave act, very brave.” Melania Trump is booed while speaking to students in Baltimore 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It is hard to recommend taking a 19-hour flight with a toddler to get a root canal with a straight face. A Family Adventure in Medical Tourism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z This 2006 single is a perfect pastiche of Pet Shop Boys-style louche decadence, played with such a straight face it's hard to know if it's a joke: "Life is such a chore/ When it's … boring." F&M playlist 2011-01-27T22:15:01Z With great relish and a straight face, the French president told that story in a YouTube video that quickly went viral Sunday. With tall Trump tale, Macron plays to France’s young voters 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z Some readers did address their words squarely to the Almighty, even if they struggled to keep a straight face. Ambivalence Prevails at PEN Festival Prayer Session 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z He revelled in the proto-ragtime rhythmic play of Renaissance composer William Byrd’s “Ninth Pavan” and somehow kept a straight face through Paul Hindemith’s Teutonic parody, “Ragtime” from “Suite ‘1922.’ Denk shows range in ‘iPod shuffle’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Other petitions tie the application up in knots for reasons that are hard, even for the FDA, to discuss with a straight face. How Big Pharma is hindering treatment of the opioid addiction epidemic 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z And yes, Rock came out and said it, calling Michael B. Jordan a “should’ve-been nominee” moments before Jordan launched into his presenter speech with an admirably straight face. Chris Rock’s Oscars didn’t “fight the power”: A night of crude jokes and cynical deflection is a poor way to show progress 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Can you keep a straight face, or will your friends know that YOU are the one Who Tooted? Style Invitational: Think up a game crazier than this one 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z I dare you to ask for a combo platter of “Sweet Jesus” and “Little B----es” with a straight face, given the waiter’s penchant for repeating everything back. Review | At Old Maryland Grill, every night is homecoming 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Such staples of the mainstream stage are exploited in ways that will make it hard for you to ever again sit through an ersatz Arthur Miller drama with a straight face. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Torres draws laughs not only because of his quirky imagination, but also because he delivers each line with a straight face. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘My Favorite Shapes’ and ‘The Beach Bum’ 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z It was impossible to keep a straight face when the empty throne prop accidentally started rolling down stage, again!. Reader reviews: your take on Three Kingdoms, Snow White and Henry IV 2012-05-18T09:56:45Z In an unusually, maybe uniquely, funny amicus brief to the Supreme Court filed last month, The Onion defended him, specifically arguing that for parody to work, mimicry needs to be executed with a straight face. Hey, Elon Musk, Comedy Doesn’t Want to Be Legal 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Polls show that 84 percent of American adults believed in Santa when they were children — children who, when prompted, say with a straight face that Santa is just as real as Michael Jordan. Is Santa Claus worth the heartbreak? 2013-12-22T21:00:00Z Third, read the poems, then tell me these are "pure expressions of love for a male friend" and keep a straight face. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z He related complex, clever tales with a perpetually straight face and his tongue firmly in his cheek. Rare Woody Allen Stand-Up Comedy From the 1960s to Be Released 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z And in its third season, ‘Scandal’ kept a straight face through a nuclear proliferation of preposterous plot twists. Alessandra Stanley Sizes Up 2013 TV Fare 2013-12-13T19:27:53Z At this point, Todd couldn't even maintain a straight face. John Oliver rips into Rudy Giuliani — “the Ken Bone of 9/11″ — over his “truth isn’t... 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Now that those types of meetings are happening over Zoom, Loy says he tries his best to text Morozumi “really hilarious things” so that he struggles to keep a straight face. Admit it. You miss your work spouse. 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z They, along with Blake Lively, who plays Carol Ferris, a pilot and aeronautics executive, and who’s miscast on both counts, look as if they’re working hard, and not only to keep a straight face. | 'Green Lantern': It?s Not That Easy Being ... You Know 2011-06-16T15:32:25Z Readers who have trouble reading this with a straight face should know that I had the same problem while typing it. 360: A Long Way Around to Find Love 2012-08-03T13:00:56Z “Tonight we’re having dinner in a dungeon,” Emily said, with a straight face that can only be attributed to stellar Botox. The Bachelorette Watch: Let's Czech Out Prague 2012-06-26T12:30:34Z During a recent sold-out show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, Wolf covered MGMT’s “Electric Feel,” Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” and a portion of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me,” all with a relatively straight face. Remi Wolf Turns Bedroom Pop Into Hypercolored Explosions 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z He would like to have done more, he says, but his straight face seems to get in the way. Will Ferrell: ‘Ignorance is a key part of comedy’ 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z There are, to be sure, white, Christian and straight faces in the film – but also plenty that are not. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z Mr. Brody either took his role seriously or can keep a straight face better than Mr. Cusack, whose contortionist expressions tend to suggest someone desperate not to let loose either laughter or bowels. Review: ‘Dragon Blade’ Features Jackie Chan, Romans and a Lot of Mayhem 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It’s unlikely that Paul Verhoeven, the Dutch filmmaker behind “Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls” and “Hollow Man,” ever directs his movies with a completely straight face. Review: ‘Paul Verhoeven’s Tricked,’ a Documentary and a Farce 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z He managed to say this with a straight face. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z She recalled her father saying with a straight face, “I’ve never seen that kid before.” Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z With a straight face, Mr. Tao said: “a Bruckner motet for piano and tap dance.” Megaphones Up, the Philharmonic Opens With Two Young Voices 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z It's getting harder and harder to keep a straight face! ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z She squeezes mattresses, peers into showers and, with a straight face, asks such questions as, “Do you have ghosts?” The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z His only job is to keep the makeup stitches from popping, to maintain a straight face when Leonore intones, “You’re only a monster if you behave like one.” ‘I, Frankenstein’: all chatter and violence, no heart or brains 2014-01-24T18:27:35Z He lets out a disappointed sigh, tries to keep a straight face, takes a deep breath and says, “I respect that,” but his voice rises on the last word like a question. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Fireworks in the Fantasy Suites 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Only on the west coast can people push nonsense like this with a straight face. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z He’s one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, albeit so self-effacing that you could never imagine him saying that with a straight face. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z There are two requirements for participants: They need to be willing to take their pants off in the subway, and to keep a straight face in the aftermath. Spare Times for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Rather, Dalio’s choice for a “safe, commercial debut” was something he describes, with a straight face, as a “Russian Mafia film, kind of a cross between ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Hamlet’ and ‘The Godfather.’ Filmmaker Paul Dalio mines his bipolar disorder for feature debut 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “There was a method to the way he handled the briefings,” Pence writes, apparently with a straight face. Loyal to God and Trump, Mike Pence Defends His Record 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z And the company says, with an apparent straight face, that the campaign is designed to showcase its “innovations.” Hooters’ not-so-”awesome” ad campaign feeds on fat-phobia 2013-02-28T15:44:00Z What’s the distance between an outsized boast delivered sincerely and an imagined excessive boast delivered comically, but with a straight face? The Playlist: Justin Timberlake Stays Funky (for Now), and 9 More New Songs 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z This is through no fault of its actors, who do a commendable job delivering some truly terrible dialogue with straight faces. Surprise! Lifetime's new “Harry & Meghan” movie isn't a total joke, veering from kind to just weird 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Thesubhuman: "One notorious corpser was Dudley Moore,so during this scene, where he is treated to a piano recital, it's hard to tell how much is acting as he struggles to keep a straight face." Clip joint: five of the best creatures in 80s fantasy cinema 2013-07-24T13:35:27Z Sal, who could hear the guys through a tiny earpiece, had to keep a straight face. These four friends grew up pulling pranks. Then they turned their shtick into a cable TV empire. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z She cracks up a bit on that last word, as if she is unable to argue against irony with a completely straight face. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z He didn’t speak between songs or name his musicians; he kept a dourly straight face. A Review of Bob Dylan at the Beacon Theater 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z I am scared and angry, but also struggling to keep a straight face because I cannot believe he is saying this. Taking a stand: when stand-up comedy turns ugly 2013-06-09T06:07:02Z The fact that publications like People and Us Weekly are covering it with a straight face adds another absurd layer. A Celebrity Z-List? Yes, It Exists 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z There are gimmicks, then there’s what these two have done — grown women playing middle-schoolers surrounded by actual middle-schoolers who manage somehow to keep a straight face. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Beyond a shared lack of news, both maintained a straight face while pretending that the retailing of celebrity lifestyle fluff and half-century-old sex scandals was a good use of their resources. ArtsBeat: Prime-Time News and the Ghost of JFK 2012-02-09T19:00:34Z But when Platt and Koch launch into a helter-skelter spoof of the TV monster hit "Glee," it's blessedly hard to keep a straight face. Wham, Bam, Ma'am: Time for Koch and Platt's spoofy 'Ham for the Holidays' 2010-12-14T03:16:04Z She added, “I will say that you have to have a special kind of talent to do what Kellyanne Conway does and keep a straight face.” The Onion Leaks a Trove of Trump Docs 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z It was a brief stopover of two or three hours, which I should have spent in the heat and grime of what the airport staff referred to, with a straight face, as the transit lounge. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But how can I say that with a straight face anymore if my own party can’t give me a fair shot? Hire me, I’m a volunteer! 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z If only it didn't try to keep such a straight face. This week's new films 2011-08-19T23:07:27Z But Bernstein couldn’t even get his musicians to put on straight faces. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z At times we struggled to maintain straight faces; at other times, our innocence. David West Read Visits Vegas for ‘The Performers’ 2012-10-21T03:07:23Z If he’s at all like Mr. Jonze, it’s because he approaches outrageous or farcical topics with a straight face but he has much stronger views on emotional torture in art: He’s for it. These Movie Scenes Might Not Be Important, but They’re Pretty Great 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z As a correspondent on The Daily Show for 12 years, Bee was known for her absurd but cutting satirical segments — and an impressive ability to keep a straight face while asking ridiculous questions. Jon Stewart and a Pony Drop by Samantha Bee's 'Full Frontal' Show 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Even as the movie grows stranger, more outlandish, and science bleeds into science fiction, Mr. Franco maintains a straight face, selling his relationships with Charles and Caesar. Looking Apocalypse in the Eye 2011-08-04T14:59:55Z Fifteen years ago, I walked into Charles D’Ambrosio’s classroom, and — how to say this with a straight face? — he changed my life. Leslie Jamison on the Best Book She Ever Got as a Present 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The star of HBO's new comedy Bored To Death says funny things with such a straight face that it's rather hard to tell when he's joking. The slacker meets the sleuth 2011-03-26T00:02:00Z This is a man, after all, whose job requires him to utter the words “gym is a privilege, people” with a straight face. ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z He covered Damien Rice and the Box Tops and, with a straight face, Matchbox Twenty. Critic’s Notebook: American Idol Winner Phillip Phillips Is Known for His Modesty 2012-05-24T06:17:26Z In either case his great gift as an actor is his straight face. Summer Movies: Mark Wahlberg Joins Will Ferrell in ?The Other Guys? 2010-05-01T03:47:00Z But somehow each generation managed the change and, in retrospect, it would be difficult to argue with a straight face that the world is the worse for it. 'The Shallows': Is the Internet changing the way we think? 2010-06-17T20:15:00Z She struggled with period pain for years, but can now say with a straight face things like: “I’m just such a big fan of the menstrual cycle!” 'I’m such a big fan of the menstrual cycle!’ – the women asking whether it’s possible to have a better period 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z First, without the benefit of hallucinogens, it's hard to listen to someone wittering on about bushes and badgers and keep a straight face. Matt Berry: Witchazel ? review 2011-03-03T22:20:01Z I defy anyone to read The Call Girls and then say with a straight face that Koestler is a major novelist. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z "I hope to leave a favorable impression," she said, failing to keep a straight face as she did. NBC's Savannah Guthrie has many more tomorrows on 'Today' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Most of those qualities are on view in “Magic Mike,” in which Mr. McConaughey plays the utterly absurd Dallas with an impressively straight face. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z Some moments are so bizarre that you can't quite process them -- and Kovacs amps up the strangeness by playing the moment with a straight face. What TV owes to Ernie Kovacs 2011-04-18T16:38:00Z To her credit, Clinton played along and answered Galifianakis’ questions with a straight face. Watch Hillary Clinton keep a straight face on 'Between Two Ferns' 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When Sebald was a child, his beloved grandfather liked to tell him, with a straight face, that a truck was coming to deliver the holes for the Emmentaler cheese. A Biography of W.G. Sebald, Who Transformed His Borrowings Into Lasting Art 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z It is here, if anywhere, that Jorge Luis Borges could claim with a straight face that Shakespeare was God. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Speaking of her outlook on life, Mr. Gabler quotes — with a straight face — this: “I’m a pretty pragmatic person, grounded in reality. I’m an earth sign, Taurus.” Review: How Streisand Became a Symbol, by Neal Gabler 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Behind him his band, Smith Westerns, was playing with a straight face, possibly a bit tentatively. Music Review: Sweet, Dreamy Nibbles From Band With Teeth 2011-01-19T23:34:30Z He’s a bodily emphatic performer, maintaining a straight face through all sorts of herky-jerky maneuvers, communicating only deadly calm and seriousness in his eyes. Music Review: Francis and the Lights Bathed in Color at S.O.B.?s 2010-08-13T22:43:00Z "You must have some idea who did this to you," demanded Jimmy with a straight face. Shetland; Toughest Place to Be a … Taxi Driver; The Mimic – review 2013-03-16T22:45:01Z "Yes, sure, I voted for Mitt Romney," I said at the dinner table with a straight face on Election Day. My husband voted for Trump, I was a secret Democrat: Our purple marriage couldn't last 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z They played it all with a straight face — making, say, a Bigfoot garden “sculpture” seem like a reasonable, even classy, every-home-should-have-one purchase. Remembering SkyMall, the in-flight catalogue at the apex of commercialism 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z You explain to me how I should be able to keep a straight face defending the country I love against Rigondeaux’s legacy? Cuba’s forgotten champ 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z But he plays this all with a straight face, and the scars Tiller comes away with are real. Chang-rae Lee’s Latest Is Fueled by Harrowing Travel, Witness Protection and Food, Food and More Food 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Jackson earns plentiful laughs with a straight face. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z But mostly, you hear dirty talk delivered with a mostly-but-not-totally straight face, slipped atop digital pulses aimed straight at the body. CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Of his eight excellent dancers, Lindsey Jones has the sharpest knack for his style of deadpan, which requires keeping a straight face as fanciful, ridiculous moves swoop in from out of left field. Review: A Dance Heginbotham Deserving of the Hype 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z "Not a thing," he said with a straight face. Barry Manilow tackles fame in risky concept album 2011-06-12T20:38:22Z The Rapture is a piker in this film; of its reported $16 million budget, roughly $15 million appears to have gone to Cage on a dare that he maintain a straight face. Review: 'Left Behind' 0 stars 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “Matt could not keep a straight face. I had to use Matt laughing because there wasn’t a take of him playing it straight. He tried to play it straight, and he just couldn’t.” How Chris Messina Forced Matt Damon to Up His Game in ‘Air’ 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z That didn’t stop him from slow-jamming the news—but to his credit, he delivered the pre-recorded segment and a summary of his record in office with a straight face. Watch Barack Obama 'Slow Jam the News' With Jimmy Fallon 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Summoning a portentous voice and a straight face, Cage proclaims, "I am Balthazar Blake, sorcerer of the 777th degree, and you are my apprentice." The Sorcerer's Apprentice: So-So Summer Fun 2010-07-15T03:45:00Z Keeping a straight face, Canadian comic Nathan Fielder told a crowd he was pursuing the "American dream" -- before acknowledging that he planned to use the bit on his Comedy Central show "Nathan for You." TV comedian behind 'Dumb Starbucks' in Los Angeles 2014-02-11T15:18:25Z It involves, simply, how the artworks should be viewed: with a smile and a wink, or with a straight face? Masters of Surface 2012-07-26T20:00:00Z "To say with a straight face that the only way we could do this without going broke is to score this in Macedonia — it's hard for us to swallow." Musicians implore Hollywood to stop scoring films overseas 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z “It’s not just the black people who get brutalized,” he tells Diane with a straight face. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 9: Blinding Privilege 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Morgan is “not afraid to leave an extremely awkward pause in, or could say incredibly ridiculous things with a completely straight face,” Brooker said. Philomena Cunk Is Weird Enough to Take on the World 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s an impotent rhetorical flourish inherited from your forefathers, a piece of indignant punctuation when your child has just told you, for instance, with a straight face, that they “don’t know” where their phone is. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z It trots along at a fair old pace, the cast doing a sterling job of keeping straight faces while spouting quasi-scientific gobbledegook, garbed in increasingly silly fancy dress. X-Men: Days of Future Past review – star-stuffed extravaganza 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z “Little gay lookin’ boy, so gay I can barely say it with a straight face,” he taunts in double time. Eminem Follows His Own Lead on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 2013-11-05T10:45:08Z So I all due respect you telling me right here with a straight face it's not about emails is really kind of not accurate. Tribune interview with Rahm Emanuel 2012-02-12T13:12:00Z In these moments, he would speak with a straight face and in an even tone; I would nod as if I grasped what he meant. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Or an elaborate joke told with a very straight face? This week's new films 2012-06-22T23:05:59Z When Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway can utter the phrase “alternative fact” with a straight face you know that legitimate, sincere and accurate speech is no longer the norm. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z He added, with a straight face: “It was a good year for the fishermen, though.” Footsteps: A Remote Colombia City That Really Does Exist 2014-04-30T14:56:57Z “I feel trapped,” he answers, delivering this unlikely instant insight with a straight face. Tony Kaye's Detachment: A Miserable Education 2012-03-22T17:09:55Z Protecting Us With Guns and Chuckles Hardly anybody enforces the law with a straight face anymore. | ?The Good Guys?: Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks as Police Partners 2010-05-18T22:41:00Z At least the boss – played by the excellent Stephen Dillane – was filmed standing with his back to the camera when he uttered that line, presumably to avoid the cruelty of maintaining a straight face. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z It's all played with a completely straight face, as it needs to be: the slightest wink turns this kind of thing into pastiche, but the Jim Jones Revue never bat an eyelid. The Jim Jones Revue: Burning Your House Down 2010-08-26T22:30:00Z Do you think that we were able to get through a scene and keep a straight face? ‘While You Were Sleeping’ turns 25: An oral history of the Sandra Bullock rom-com favorite 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Right from the get-go maintaining a straight face is impossible. | 'The Road to Freedom': ?The Road to Freedom,? Directed by Brendan Moriarty ? Review 2011-09-30T01:15:49Z He seldom falls back on making fun of his material, preferring instead to play by the rules and with a straight face. DVDs: The Apocalypse Served Straight Up 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z This production keeps such a straight face, it’s as if the slightest smile might crack it. Theater: At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit 2010-03-10T06:07:00Z I kept a pretty straight face while I was skyping and then I ran downstairs and told my wife, 'Hanks has said yes! David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z "I'm not scared of anything," I said, with a straight face. My city kid summer camp nightmare 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Cancelled after a measly six episodes, it remains an utter joy, not just for its relentless stream of jokes but the absolutely straight face with which it was played by Leslie Nielsen and Alan North. Firefly to Futurama: the cancelled TV shows you are still angry about 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s no wonder that Samir can dissemble so successfully; Tuil is just as crafty in this narrative, shifting tones without warning, holding a straight face through the most acerbic parody of our contradictory ideals. ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The Origo singers, capably led by the ensemble’s director, Eric Rice, and sometimes accompanied on period instruments by a fine, flexible ensemble, for the most part maintained straight faces and a clean, almost prudish, style. Review: Ensemble Origo, Doing the Lowbrow With Dignity 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Best Reason To Come Back Next Week: The most dramatic finale in Bachelorette history, a line even Chris Harrison couldn’t say with a straight face, while swearing it to be true …this time. The Bachelorette Watch: The Men Tell All 2013-07-23T02:48:03Z “A pink painting,” he replied with a straight face. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Could I really say that with a straight face if I somehow felt I was “above” sex work? My own “indecent proposal” 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Cargo, EC2, Thu MASS, Dublin Impress your priest by becoming a regular at this club night and telling him with a straight face that you attend mass every Sunday. This week's new clubs 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z But it is hard to echo, with a straight face, the company’s proposition that looking cute is a way of protecting the earth. The Vexed Appeal of Reformation 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Have you seen ‘The Princess and the Frog’?” one said, with a completely straight face, referring to Disney’s fairy-tale movie. Angola Prison and the Shadow of Slavery 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z TIME: This show depicts fairly outlandish events, but with a straight face. James Wolk: Zoo is TV's Answer to Jurassic Park 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z He was probably told to call it that, but he couldn’t quite put it across with a straight face. Let Colbert be Colbert: Don’t water down “The Late Show” host’s unique strengths 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z You also have to say things with a straight face that are funny. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z “Jon’s normally straight face is holding back laughter. . . . The whole stage is cracking up.” Review | ‘Swan Dive’ gives voice to every suspicion you may harbor about professional ballet 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z They were movies that, in their exuberant exaggerations, wore their own absurdity with a fiercely straight face, even as they touched on underlying terrors—largely also focussed on the hubris of recklessly manipulating nature. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z You can see reporter Paul Kenyon is struggling to keep a straight face. TV review: Gok Cooks Chinese; Eurovision's Dirty Secret: Panorama 2012-05-21T20:05:00Z “He ironed my green satin flares with a straight face and helped me reacquaint with the gift of speech every morning after!” Robert Plant remembers former Led Zeppelin tour manager Dennis Sheehan 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Their attorney Matt McReynolds told CNN, with a perfectly straight face, “We have not seen the state of California go this far before in trying to restrict speech.” Gay healers: You’re quacks! 2012-11-28T21:24:00Z Gabby said the hardest part of playing the child genius is "focusing and keeping a straight face when there's a lot of sounds in the audience." The star of 'Matilda'? It's a constellation made of three vivacious young actresses 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z His character is a growling bag of one-liners that took some 40 hours to deliver, one line at a time, with a straight face. Video Game to Play in Vintage Gumshoes 2011-05-06T20:13:40Z But it is delightful precisely because it refuses to answer, pursuing its unlikely premise for years with a resolutely straight face. The Poodle Who Hosts a Japanese Cooking Show from Beyond the Grave 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z He’s also probably trying to keep a straight face. Comedic Legend Jerry Lewis Dead at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z It’s all so familiar, yet the premiere presents counterterrorism with a straight face — something that few other such series can keep. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z The event was full of quotable moments, prompted by three moderators who had to, with straight faces, treat the fringe candidates with equal seriousness. That viral Idaho debate was not the “best ever” 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z “I did everything I could to rescue you,” Simcoe says with a straight face, “as my men will attest.” 'TURN: Washington's Spies' recap: Providence shines on Patriot cause 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z “Revenge,” on ABC, which is a modern-day “Dallas” or “Dynasty” set in the Hamptons, keeps a straight face as it wallows in soapy suspense and arch satire. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z Before our meeting, he'd posted me two books – Arthur Koestler's Act of Creation and Henri Bergson's Laughter – so I was keeping a straight face. John Cleese: 'Anger is the deadly sin I've had most difficulty with' 2013-06-15T22:00:01Z "A lady ordered this in person with a completely straight face." Starbucks barista shares long order made by a customer, Twitter explodes 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Then there is the film’s dark humor, which Karpman scores with a straight face. Playful and profound, three film scores all help find the truth of the story 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z “If you are telling the American people with a straight face that you would shut the government down for Ukraine, then shame on you,” Lawler said. News Analysis: Kevin McCarthy may avoid a shutdown. But the fiasco shows he's weaker than ever 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z This apparently is a serious thing, though it’s increasingly difficult to keep a straight face with anything involving the International Olympic Committee. Hold your laughter for flag football at the Olympics 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Do they really think that people are so stupid that they can say this stuff with a straight face? Dems and news media allies test the limits of denial on Biden family corruption 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z “Ken sang that song,” he told The Times with a straight face. 'Barbie' earworm 'I'm Just Ken' brings toxic masculinity to its knees 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “Ken sang that song,” Gosling says with a straight face. 'Forgotten' no more: How Ken became the subversive center of 'Barbie' 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z “It’s just the heart of a competitor, just battling,” Carroll said afterward with a straight face. Bill Plaschke recalls his most memorable moments inside 100-year-old L.A. Coliseum 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z They filled Trump’s Cabinet and defended his policies while still attending Mass with a straight face. Column: Will conservative Catholics decry Florida's Sacramento migrant dump? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z "This is gonna be difficult to say with a straight face," the CNN host said, struggling to hold back laughter as he read off Fox's self-proclaimed commitment to "the highest journalistic standards." Jake Tapper can't keep a straight face while reading Fox statement touting "journalistic standards" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z “I don’t remember getting dunked on,” Embiid tried to say with a straight face. Maxey, Embiid, Harris power 76ers to 96-84 win over Nets 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z That’s why today’s left can, with a straight face, profess that men can become pregnant and give birth. Democrats, the media and their ‘birthing people’ nonsense 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Since the 1960s, if not earlier, self-styled legal conservatives have been saying — with perfectly straight faces — that judges must not legislate from the bench. Opinion | Matthew Kacsmaryk calls the right-leaning judicial branch’s bluff 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z “A guy came by my office from their corporate headquarters and kind of snarled and growled about it. I could hardly keep a straight face.” Patricia Schroeder, congresswoman who wielded barbed wit, dies at 82 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “Their ultimate conclusion is that the sender would have to intend the receiver would have to use the abortion drugs illegally. That doesn’t pass the straight face test,” she said. In the mail?: Pro-life, pro-choice advocates turn attention to FDA’s abortion pill plan 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “The Democrats have lost the ability to, with a straight face, criticize Trump or the next Republican administration’s approach on immigration.” News Analysis: Why the border 'will never go back to what it was before Trump' 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z As 76ers fans cheered the improbable shot, Embiid kept a straight face and motioned to the crowd that he knew his trigger hadn’t been quick enough. Analysis | Joel Embiid still believes after a career of painful losses 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z With a completely straight face, she has said she is speaking for those whose voices have been silenced by trans activists. Commentary: Here's an idea: Maybe if we all stop talking about J.K. Rowling, she'll just go away 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z On Jan. 10, actor Regina Hall accepted Costner’s award on his behalf while struggling to maintain a straight face and blaming the way the text was written. Kevin Costner 'feels really good' unboxing Golden Globe after he missed ceremony 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z “And you can’t argue - at least, I would say you can’t argue with a straight face that it isn’t a good thing that we have had 12 million jobs created under this president.” Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z “And you can’t argue — at least, I would say you can’t argue with a straight face that it isn’t a good thing that we have had 12 million jobs created under this president.” Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z But does he have to keep a straight face so he doesn't give anything away? Happy Valley's Ryan: Rhys Connah on starring in hit TV drama then and now 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z “Realistically, can they tell me with a straight face that they expect people to wait that long?” How will asylum work after Title 42 ends? No one knows yet 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “Realistically can they tell me with a straight face that they expect people to wait that long?” US plans for more migrant releases when asylum limits end 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z White said while trying to keep a straight face before smiling. Jets’ White won’t let 4-INT game vs. Bills beat him again 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z But it was all Yousef A Al-mana, president of the Qatar Weightlifting Federation, could do to keep a straight face when questioned by reporters in a hallway outside the press room. LOVERRO: Bemusement at Qatar’s antics replaced these days by disgust 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Her spasmodic, zombie-like moves at the school dance to the tune of the Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” — with a deadly straight face, no less — create one of the top television moments of the year. Netflix's 'Wednesday' is the 'Addams Family' spinoff we deserve 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z I know that with three years of octogenarian life under my belt, it’s all I can do to navigate our nation’s capital with a straight face. Opinion | Mr. President, as a fellow octogenarian, I welcome you to the club 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Farrell's persona - straight bat, straight face and flat vowels - sticks out in a sporting world of spin and schmooze. 'Game-changer' Farrell focused as another 100 nears 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z I mean, how could I, with a straight face, eliminate traveling through Russia and then go scurrying down to my Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy? The 25 Travel Experiences You Must Have 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Sophie Hicks, who was in charge of the alpacas at the service, said they all struggled to keep a straight face. 'Singing' goat causes giggling fits at Worcester Cathedral service 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The court filing doesn’t entirely keep a straight face, calling the federal judiciary “total Latin dorks.” The Onion and the Supreme Court. Not a parody 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z “The president argued with a straight face that the American people ought to be grateful for last month’s charitable inflation report because it could have been even worse,” he said. McConnell unleashes on Biden for saying he’s going to get inflation ‘under control’ 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z The Queen's role in public life was tightly choreographed and she often had to keep a straight face. Six times the Queen made us laugh 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Lots of things today don’t pass the straight face test. Informed voters and honest elections are left’s worst nightmare 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “We’re not naive to understand that there’s additional revenue by having an expanded playoff,” he said, presumably with a straight face. Perspective | College Football Playoff expansion is both good and all about the money 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z “It forced those who wanted to continue defending the law to hold up a mirror and ask themselves whether they could do so any longer with a straight face.” For Singapore’s Gay Men, Repeal of Sex Ban Brings Hope After Years of Pain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z At that time, few people outside Buffalo and San Diego knew about the allegations, so McDermott could still say with a straight face that Araiza was “a great kid.” Perspective | BYU dallied. The Bills waffled. Then public shame forced them to act. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Robert Grace told jurors with a straight face. Column: America loves rap, not Black people. Don't be fooled by this bill protecting lyrics 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Yes, they tell us all this with a straight face, hoping we won’t inquire beyond the fake news. Informed voters and honest elections are left’s worst nightmare 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Do you feel safe knowing that this tactical use of rhetorical sleight of hand is actually accompanied by a straight face — or perhaps a sly grin? All Republicans are now terrorists 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Most of the time, I say with a straight face and in a monotone, “No, he is my son.” Advice | Miss Manners: How do I handle intrusive questions about my son? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Yes, I said that with a straight face — or tried to. Is Andrew Yang finally ready for his closeup? His likely-to-fail third party depends on it 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “That way I can say with a straight face I voted for him,” Kinzinger explained, thinking about future discussions with voters. Analysis | The education of Adam Kinzinger 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z “He was the mainstream traditional conservative Republican who would go to donors and not just defend Trump and his policies, but with a straight face insist that Donald J. Trump was a good man.” Pence Navigates a Possible White House Run, and a Fraught Political Moment 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z “Yes, sir, I am,” Mr. Watson said with a straight face. Declaring Curry and Samosas Enemy No. 1 to Whip the Police Into Shape 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Did he say this with a straight face? Opinion | Ted Cruz won’t go to the poorhouse now 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z One brave celebrity shows up each week without a script, trying to keep a straight face while ad libbing alongside Will Arnett’s hilariously vain homicide detective Terry Seattle. 11 under-the-radar series you should be watching 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z An institution so dysfunctional, perhaps, that you can’t even call it a family with a straight face? Opinion | For Justice Thomas, the Roberts court is more feud than family 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Along with many others, I struggled to keep a straight face at the studio’s insistence that this movie is not about the toy Buzz Lightyear but the man behind the toy. Summer movies 2022: 8 hot ones we’re looking forward to seeing 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z She cracks wise with a straight face, creating the illusion that she doesn’t even know what’s so funny about it all. 31 must-see acts to catch during Netflix Is a Joke Fest 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Forced to be the audience for these unintended comic performances, Jackson deserves an award simply for keeping a straight face through it all. Small minds think alike 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z “I cannot fathom how they can make that argument with a straight face,” he said. Russia’s failures in Ukraine imbue Pentagon with newfound confidence 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Max is trying, not entirely convincingly to keep a straight face. Max Verstappen: 'A mistake or crash can happen in a blink' 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Hern has never tried to hide his disdain for his ideological enemies and often makes them the butts of his jokes, delivered with a straight face. Pioneering abortion doctor fears Roe’s fall: ‘We’ll see a lot of ... women dying’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Curry drained a record 16 threes — nine more than the previous All-Star record — getting so hot that he took a shot from behind the three-point line with a straight face. LeBron James provides perfect finisher after Stephen Curry makes All-Star history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk might or might not be visionaries, but they are easily the most powerful people on this planet to speak with a straight face about colonizing other ones. Opinion | Don’t Cede the Space Race to China and the Billionaires 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z It’s the day when this league — with a straight face — can play up how much it celebrates inclusivity and respects women. Perspective | Rams’ leading men Aaron Donald, Cooper Kupp write perfect Hollywood ending 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z What a wonderful world in which to live, this magical place in which Adams can speak with a straight face about transparency but provide zero information about what’s going on. Perspective | Who could have seen another Russian doping issue coming? Everyone but the IOC. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Durant tried to maintain a straight face through the draft as the TNT commentators ribbed him for passing on Harden, who was acquired by the Nets in a January 2021 blockbuster from the Houston Rockets. After blockbuster split, Kevin Durant snubs James Harden in NBA All-Star Game draft 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z “It has been years since that sentence could be written with a straight face.” If Putin wants an exit from the Ukraine crisis, the offramps are open 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z I’m the new kid on the block so I’m a consummate professional, trying to keep a straight face. ‘Dallas’ star Audrey Landers reflects on 'prankster' Larry Hagman, why she didn’t pose nude for Playboy 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z With a straight face and serious tone, she expressed her strong objections to the antidemocratic laws Republicans are passing in the states based on lies and falsehoods regarding a stolen election. Opinion | Ms. Sinema’s phony objections to filibuster reform 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z You can try to keep a straight face, but it turns out it’s a tough question to pose to a stranger, Oakland real estate agent Tobias Riday found. Two alpacas on the loose in Oakland. What could go wrong? 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z How do I tell my guys, with a straight face, you are carrying a couch down 22 flights? How a Professional Mover Spends His Sundays 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z “But our ability to continue to articulate that belief with a straight face depends on the policy choices we make.” The Achilles’ heel of Biden’s climate plan? Coal miners 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Campos keeps a straight face and lighthearted tone in the office. Young Latinos are dying of COVID at an alarming rate — the effects could be felt for years 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Pound told CNN’s Erin Burnett with a straight face, “She just asked that her privacy be respected for the time being.” Perspective | The WTA stands up in decency, while the rest of sports bows to China’s tyranny 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z But this season, these Lakers have been anything but normal — a team capable of talking about 10-game winning streaks with a straight face despite having barely won 10 of its first 21 games. Lakers overcome meltdown vs. Pistons in yet another tense performance 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z No first-year law student could write this stuff with a straight face. Opinion | ‘No decision of this Court is safe’: What’s at stake in the Texas abortion case 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z "He’s got that straight face, but his skill set is diverse and versatile. Evan has earned our trust because of how quickly he’s picked things up." Mobley has double-double, Cavs beat Hawks 101-95 for 1st win 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z These objects were presented with a straight face, but some wondered whether they might be a joke. The Strange Appeal of Shelter TikTok 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z To have said that with a straight face meant that you were capable of anything. LOVERRO: Dear Bruce, your shadow is still a dark cloud over this franchise 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z A few years ago, he drew worldwide attention by claiming, with a straight face, that he believed the world is flat. Opinion | Kyrie Irving’s self-pitying refusal to get vaccinated is pathetic and dangerous 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Panda’s screen presence is soulful yet earthy, as is the acting of Rapace and Gudnason, who manage to remain grounded and believable despite what they have been tasked with doing, with a straight face. Review | The movie ‘Lamb’ is weird, even by A24 standards, but also haunting and beautiful 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Our top financial watchdog claimed with a straight face that it’s just too darn hard to figure out if the thing that keeps quacking like a duck is really a duck. Column: Rohit Chopra, Biden's pick to head CFPB, finally gets Senate nod (barely) 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z They say this, of course, with a straight face as if this isn't completely in their own power to do. Governments paid to develop the COVID vaccines. Big Pharma wants to hoard the patents 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z People say things like “math doesn’t take sides” and “people lie, numbers don’t” with a straight face, and Gaal is constantly reciting prime numbers in order to relax. Apple’s Foundation starts out big, lavish, and a little boring 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “He’s just always cool whether you make a mistake, whether you make a big play, he kind of keeps a straight face toward everything.” Bridgewater convinced Broncos; now he’s out to win over fans 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z I’d find it hard to cover another one with a straight face, given the drift. Ron Judd, the writer who’s made us laugh (or seethe) for decades, reflects on his career as he leaves The Seattle Times 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Trivers is one of the more stoic coaches in the area, known for pacing the sidelines wearing a purple shirt, a Gonzaga necktie and a straight face. High school football is back in full — with pageantry, crowds and especially eager teams 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z No. I was just comfortable in the ring and just, straight face and just doing a good job of being who I am. Gold medalist Steveson having fun as he considers next move 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z “No. I was just comfortable in the ring and just, straight face and just doing a good job of being who I am. So it was nice. I was happy to be there.” Gold medalist Steveson having fun as he considers next move 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z All of the memes and jokes — culminating in national news reports and a CNN Brasil broadcaster struggling to keep a straight face — have sent Joinville city officials scrambling. Most everyone gets the coronavirus vaccine in the arm. Butt this Brazilian city is shooting lower. 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z “I don’t know how you can say that with a straight face, I’m sorry.” Loudoun County School Board approves guidelines on transgender student rights 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z No more can Wall Street pundits, asset managers, lawyers and lobbyists argue with a straight face that Chinese firms are anything but under the effective control of the CCP. Opinion | Wall Street is finally waking up to the reality of China 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z “All the while keeping a very straight face and going to work and putting her hard hat on and doing whatever we ask of her to do. Amazing effort on both ends of the floor.” How Storm’s Ezi Magbegor is using increased minutes from Candice Dupree’s departure to find ‘sweet spot’ 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z So Conan was trying to keep a straight face as he was continuing, but it made for one funny segment. End of a late-night era: 28 years of memorable Conan moments It’s the kind of film that is rife with lines about making a “real difference” and a “purpose greater than football” — all delivered with a straight face. Review | ‘12 Mighty Orphans’ is the mother of all underdog football films 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The lads were telling me to calm down and I was trying to keep a straight face. When Scotland were sunk by Gascoigne's genius 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The Democrats’ theatrical challenge will be to keep straight faces while insisting that their motivation is altruistic: indignation about D.C. residents paying federal taxes without being fully represented in Congress. Opinion | The anti-constitutional D.C. statehood pretense 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The witness said - with a straight face - that coroners across the country and all over the world agreed they would mark every cause of death on every death certificate to be COVID-19 related. Editorial Roundup: Ohio 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z “By and large, Biden has been picking people who make it hard for Republicans to oppose with a straight face,” he said. Analysis | Biden’s slow and steady approach on Cabinet choices seems to be working 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z “I went back into the Cracker Barrel and it was very hard for me to say this with a straight face, even though I was panicking: ‘Do you have cameras in the parking lot? Pet rooster reunited with owner after going missing 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z One of his customers, an African literature professor, watched Sow’s video nearby with a straight face. Diary Sow disappeared in France. She’s back with a new book about a girl who ran away. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “But, of course, it wasn’t. Still, I was surprised that even politicians and pundits could utter all that eyewash about ‘the citadel of democracy’ and ‘a light to the world’ with a straight face. Mark Steyn rips media’s ‘citadel of democracy’ framing of Capitol: ‘It’s a citadel of crap’ 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z He also said, with a straight face, that he would work toward a peaceful transition of power. If we didn't know before that Trump and his supporters hate democracy, we do now 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Trying to work all this overtime and then trying to keep up with all the death and dying and trying to keep a straight face and keep moving forward, it’s exhausting,” she said. Southern California’s Hospitals Are Overwhelmed, and It May Get Worse 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Amateurism could be defended with a straight face. How might the Supreme Court rule on NCAA limits on athlete compensation? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z In April, Supervisor Michelle Steel sent out a press release with a straight face that Orange County was “flattening the curve” on coronavirus cases and had kept hospitalization rates stable. The year Orange County reminded us it's still Orange County 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z But as a macro matter, it’s hard to argue with a straight face that more childhood brain damage is good for either children or the economy they may someday contribute to. Opinion | No, Trump’s 11th hour deregulation blitz won’t help the economy 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Because — and this is difficult to type with a straight face — she has said mean things about them on Twitter. Column: A Biden Cabinet nominee's tweets hurt the feelings of GOP senators. That could cost her the job 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “Inside I was screaming, and I was crying, and I was yelling,” he said, “but outside I was just numb and with a straight face, just trying to get through the day.” Another election night nears, with trepidation replacing hope 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z With a straight face, he announced that it was Biden who, in eight years as vice president, “did nothing except build cages to keep children in.” Opinion | The only thing worse for Trump than an unwatchable debate is a watchable one 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “The transient population, it’s just so sad and it’s so pitiful, and you sound like you’re so mean,” Zimmer told my colleague Julia Wick, presumably with a straight face. Column: She tried to rent motel rooms for homeless people. A NIMBY hospital stopped her 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z I’m telling you, straight face communication, move on and get it done.” Substance over style serves Heat well in Game 2 win over Celtics 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z There aren’t many people who could make the basic mechanics of releasing a record genuinely comic, but Cook rarely does anything with a straight face. AG Cook: the nutty producer behind the decade's most divisive music 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “They are creating a separate and new reality that is the complete opposite of reality and saying it with a straight face in droning fashion into the camera,” Reid said. Conventions highlight aggressive fact-check efforts 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z That’s perhaps unsurprising: In a world where disinfectant therapy is discussed with a straight face, the difference between relative and absolute may indeed seem small. Editorial Roundup: US 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The quest for total honesty is one only a teenager could pursue with a straight face. Review: Growing up is hard to do in Elena Ferrante's 'The Lying Life of Adults' 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The only wonder was that Swan managed to keep a reasonably straight face throughout the best part of 40 minutes. Trump's stream of subconsciousness becomes a torrent in car crash interview | John Crace 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z “It was hard to keep a straight face as Sean proceeded to lie to the American people,” Ms. Manigault Newman writes. In Trumpworld, the Grown-Ups in the Room All Left, and Got Book Deals 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z The best part, he said, is that Smoliga wrote it with a straight face. Scientists have finally calculated how many hot dogs a person can eat at once 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “The claim of absolute immunity was too far out there to endorse with a straight face,” said Brian Fallon, the executive director of Demand Justice, a progressive group fighting Mr. Trump’s judicial nominations. A Conservative Court and Trump’s Own Appointees Declare Their Independence 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Roberts couldn’t find a way to differentiate the two, at least not with a straight face. Op-Ed: Why abortion rights are still at risk 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z She maintained a straight face while arguing that Trump, who has repeatedly glorified violence, had never encouraged violence against anyone. Sarah Sanders lied again and again for Trump. Now she’s got her teeth into John Bolton | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “He was charismatic and boisterous, self-deprecating and convivial when he was with the people he loved most. His deadpan delivery of silly-one liners melted away when he couldn’t keep a straight face any longer.” US Marine killed in parachute jump found purpose in service 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “I did not think you did,” answers Ali, somehow with a straight face. 'Ramy's' second season pulls off a miracle: It's even better than the first 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s Not About the Bike, his 2000 autobiography, he tells Zenovich with a completely straight face, was unfairly picked apart, because “everything in that book was true, except for when I address doping”. In a new documentary, Lance Armstrong shows plenty of rage but little regret 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Now both sides say — with a straight face: Oh, we thought you knew. Perspective | Ignore baseball’s labor squabbles. For once, the money isn’t what really matters. 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z And how can lawmakers say with a straight face that they understand all these measures? Recent Missouri editorials 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Murray nodded limply, he successfully kept a straight face and at some point he even awkwardly uttered: “Nice!” No-vaxx Djokovic: why his spiritual world view can have a dangerous side 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Scheme” details how the FBI rented a yacht in Manhattan and suites in Las Vegas where undercover agents encouraged the commission of crimes that are difficult to describe with a straight face. Opinion | Looks like we got March Madness after all 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The GOP could face a hard time calling Democratic candidates socialists with a straight face as Congress works on a bipartisan, near $2 trillion rescue package that would essentially have government drive the economy indefinitely. Coronavirus suddenly upends campaign themes for both parties 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z He frequently deploys his one-liners with such a straight face, with such characteristic crustiness, that it takes a while for his audience to catch on. Bernie Sanders, Stand-Up Comic 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z "They couldn't say that with a straight face, but functionally, that is the way it was taken by courts thereafter. Nobody ever said it explicitly. It's just the way it worked out on the ground." Where science enters the courtroom, the Daubert name looms large 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Soto, though, kept a straight face while waiting for the next question. Why World Series hero Juan Soto says he just wants to make the Nationals 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z How is it an anti-tanking device if it allows an 80-win team to say with a straight face it's competing for the playoffs? Pluses and minuses of the radical MLB playoff proposal 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z But it’s no longer really possible to argue with a straight face that President Trump did nothing wrong. Recent Kansas editorials 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z “I love Bernie’s smile, but honestly the best is when he says something with his dry delivery and a straight face, which leaves the rest of us laughing,” said Faiz Shakir, Mr. Sanders’s campaign manager. Bernie Sanders, Stand-Up Comic 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z But the Republican Party is willing to keep a straight face and pretend it’s not. Opinion | Democrats need to focus on picking the best candidate to beat Trump 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Romney kept a straight face, but a hint of a smile crossed his mouth. View from the gallery: Senators’ personal habits on full display as Week 2 begins 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z "I almost can't even keep a straight face on that accusation," she said. Grammys boss 'has evidence' votes were 'rigged' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Manning would keep a straight face for the next few minutes before letting his new teammate in on the ruse. Eli Manning Announces His Retirement 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Raygun, a printing, clothing and novelty retailer with several locations around the state, slaps a crooked smile on the straight face of such serious subjects as politics, social causes and Iowa stereotypes. On the tourist trail in Iowa 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z That, of course, sidestepped the real question — what role did racism, or even just race, play in a culture where the term “half-caste” is still used in some places with a completely straight face? Opinion | ‘Step back’ is the language of control. We can thank Harry and Meghan for that. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Friel said the incident “made it difficult for me to report with a straight face on Trump running for president.” Former Fox News reporter claims that she rejected Trump’s invitation to "kiss": “We’re both married” 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He told that story with a complete straight face all his life, and it wasn’t until my sons got older that they found out it was not true. LOVERRO: Even in gloomier times, diehard fans take Redskins devotion to their graves 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In the impeachment committee hearings, Republicans insist with straight faces that Trump was deeply concerned about corruption in Ukraine. Opinion | Democracy Grief Is Real 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Once a Senate leader vows to partner with a defendant’s lawyers during a trial, it becomes difficult for that juror to swear to “do impartial justice” with a straight face. House Dem makes case: McConnell should recuse in impeachment trial 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Given this record, how can this administration claim with a straight face that it’s pro-family? Opinion | Ivanka Trump claims her father’s administration is ‘pro-family.’ That’s rich. 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Still, something like “the Joneses’ car” is basically impossible to say with a straight face. The pedants’ pedant: why the Apostrophe Protection Society has closed in disgust 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Rather, it’s about Democrats enacting a blatantly unconstitutional law with a straight face for purely political reasons. California Democrats handed the GOP a win with law to force Trump to release his tax returns 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “None of the Republican senators defending Trump could say with a straight face that they would tolerate a Democratic president doing the same thing,” tweeted Walter Shaub, former director of the government ethics office. Trump impeachment: Republicans dig in as hopes of bipartisan support dashed 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z He wore a straight face, much calmer than he was minutes earlier during his goal celebration. Md. 3A boys’ soccer final: Wilde Lake wins with golden goal 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z I’m saying, ‘did that guy say that with a straight face?’ Donald Trump Jr. on day one of public impeachment hearings: ‘I’ve never seen anything more ridiculous’ 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “Most definitely,” Durham kidded with a straight face when asked whether he’d like to be shifted to point guard after that display. Mooney’s 18 points help Notre Dame power past Howard, 79-50 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z And they did so with the journalistic equivalent of a straight face. Press Watch: After all its great reporting, Washington Post self-gaslights on impeachment 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s against this backdrop that Mitch McConnell, reading from a prepared text with a straight face, wants to talk about House Democrats taking “a one-year vacation from any productive legislation.” Ignoring irony, McConnell accuses Dems of taking a 'one-year vacation' 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z With a straight face, the conductor said he was not sure that would be enough. ‘The Doors Remained Open as a Man’s Voice Came Over the Speaker’ 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Smith was “one of the only reasons they could use the word ‘news’ after Fox with a straight face,” said Kimmel, “and now he’s gone.” Trevor Noah: Trump the 'only person who could make the Middle East more chaotic' 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Here are some things Michael Locksley said Tuesday, all of it sincere, all with a straight face. Michael Locksley is making Maryland football relevant and fun - The Washington Post 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z I realize the cabinet secretary was able to say all of this with a straight face. Pompeo's whopper: Team Trump is the most science-friendly in history 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Meantime, the coterie of suck-ups and sycophants he calls an administration insists with a straight face that he’s telling the absolute truth and we’re somehow missing it. The emperor’s new clothes 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z And, maintaining a straight face, he added: “We don’t know if the eel DNA we are detecting is from a gigantic eel or just many small eels.” Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel, say scientists 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “It was going toward the Gulf, that was what was originally projected,” Trump explained with a straight face as he gestured toward the altered map, “and it took a right turn.” The White House presented an amended hurricane map seemingly to justify a Trump tweet 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “My right honorable friend, the leader of the house, is very good at keeping a straight face when he is coming out with arguments that are almost incredible,” he said. Jacob Rees-Mogg Takes Brexit Lying Down 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z He questioned how the Tory whips could, with a straight face, threaten no-deal opponents like him with expulsion from the party given how many current ministers had previously defied Theresa May on the same issue. Brexit's big week: Five things we learned on Tuesday 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z That is, unless you are New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who actually claimed with a straight face on Monday that he did not "see" that Luck had retired over the weekend: Bill Belichick claims he didn't see the news that Andrew Luck retired, which is a huge load of BS - Golf Digest 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z That they can say with a straight face that they already “invest in their employees, protect the environment and deal fairly and ethically with their suppliers” shows how ethically bankrupt they are. Opinion | C.E.O. Pledge of Social Responsibility 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z “It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein.” Top US university investigates donations from Jeffrey Epstein 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship,” wrote Zuckerman on his blog. Daily briefing: Cryptographers fight a future without secrets 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z "It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship." MIT staffer, visiting scholar quit over Jeffrey Epstein's $200G donation to school media lab 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z “It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship.” Prominent MIT professor resigns in protest over lab's links to Epstein 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z One of my buddies asked me with a straight face, “Should I sell it all and get out?” Perspective | How to survive in volatile markets: Go live your life 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z How he managed to say this with a straight face wasn’t altogether clear. While slamming critics, Trump says his words 'bring people together' 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z "The man said with a straight face, 'because it mentions murder.' It's actually funny," Prager added. Dennis Prager on Google restricting PragerU videos: The left does not support freedom of speech 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z To be able to lie and twist the truth and deliver her message with such conviction and a straight face takes an amazing character. Reader letters: Let the Marianne Williamson debate rage on 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z "If anything, sometimes unfairly, I think people think she was too straight-faced but one day they might get to see these out-takes. There was more laughter than straight face." 'People thought third Murray brother was real' 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Fleetwood didn’t miss a beat: “Which time?” he answered with a straight face. Beneath Tommy Fleetwood's fun-loving exterior is a competitor who wants more - Golf Digest 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z He’s lost the ability to say, with a straight face, “I’ve believed in this guy from the first moment he interviewed,” because those interviews are over, and he still doesn’t have the permanent job. Perspective | The Washington Wizards’ lack of a GM is getting curiouser and curiouser 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z “If you’re going to pursue a safe third-country agreement, you have to be able to say ‘safe’ with a straight face,” Doris Meissner, the former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, told me. How Trump’s Tariff Threat Could Outsource the Asylum Crisis to Mexico 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Not even the most pompous administrator could claim with a straight face that no matriculating student at Harvard ever uttered a hurtful word. Opinion | Harvard has betrayed its mission to educate 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Phil Neville maintained a straight face when, on the eve of kick off, he claimed he would “love” to be a Scotland player facing his Lionesses but England’s manager was surely being mischievous. Parris and White get England off to winning start at Women’s World Cup 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z There were beatings, and the teen developed a strategy: Keep a straight face. Lovingly, a family raises an intersex child - again 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z How does one keep a straight face while representing indigent clients in criminal cases against the very municipal government whose offices are simultaneously being raided by the FBI? Opinion | I’m a Baltimore public defender. Corruption in the city is a slap in the face to my clients. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z “So I got into serious acting,” she says, adding with a completely straight face: “I’m quite good at serious acting.” Emma Thompson left comedy after being called a ‘man hater.’ But she never stopped making trouble 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z With a straight face, Morgan recalled that Trump was “unable to serve in Vietnam” because of his “bone spur.” Opinion | For D-Day, Trump recalls the heroism of ... Donald Trump 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z A Biden campaign aide responded: “I would say the tweet speaks for itself, but it’s so unhinged and erratic that I’m not sure anyone could even say that with a straight face.” Trump and Kim Jong-un 'agree' Biden has a 'low IQ', White House says 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z “Nobody could be with Tim and keep a straight face once he got on a roll,” Burnett said in a 2003 interview with the Television Academy Foundation. U.S. actor Tim Conway of 'The Carol Burnett Show' dies at age 85 -... 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z But that is not enough for Sen. Warren, who managed to keep a straight face on the Senate floor. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Humans define π to be the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter and then say with a straight face that it is irrational! I Can Has Numberz? 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z It is to hear Melania complain about cyber bullies or Don Jr. lament the loss of civility and to marvel at their ability to maintain straight faces. Don’t fundamentalists ever get tired of being wrong? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z How could you do that and still with a straight face show a delighted woman opening her Jane Seymour Open Hearts necklace on TV during halftime? The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The best claim made with a straight face this past week was by: Sideline Chatter: Pac-12 hoops fans might bring pitchforks and torches to Clippers games 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z This, amazingly, was delivered with a straight face. Jennifer Kupcho wins first Augusta National Women’s Amateur 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z And he said it with a completely straight face. Andre Iguodala says his "basketball game is a direct reflection" of how much golf he plays, isn't kidding - Golf Digest 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “Our deputy prime minister will be confronting those comments in Turkey. He is going to set the record straight face to face,” Ardern told reporters in Christchurch. New Zealand foreign minister to confront Erdoğan over video of Christchurch attack 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Yes, he kept a straight face — because he meant it. Perspective | Injuries have colored Stephen Strasburg’s career — and obscured who he is 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “If your last name is on a building, you can’t say that with a straight face,” he said. A lingering question in the college admissions scandal: Why? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Dudley kept a straight face for most of the game, but she flashed a smile with 35 seconds remaining before pumping her fists toward Woodbridge’s fans in the bleachers at the final buzzer. Woodbridge reaches its first girls’ basketball state title game with win over T.C. Williams in Virginia Class 6 semifinals 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Now, try to argue with a straight face that a challenge to today’s party duopoly would subtract from the stock of excellence in government. Opinion | Democrats are having an awful week — and Howard Schultz is having a good one 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z “Joaquin Guzman deserved a fair trial and it cannot be said with a straight face that he received one. We will continue fighting until the time that he gets one.” El Chapo jurors could be in legal trouble for criminal contempt as defense readies push for retrial 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z "How hard do you think it must be to keep a straight face while saying that Michael Cohen is a liar while defending Donald Trump who literally cannot breathe without lying?" wrote actor Josh Gad. Alec Baldwin, fellow stars react to Michael Cohen hearing: He deserves a 'Medal of Honor' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z I'm not even kidding you that was something Myers said with a straight face this morning. LeBron James played Tony Allen-level defense against Memphis. Just kidding, he stood around like a statue instead - Golf Digest 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Sailor said it was hard to keep a straight face while on the runway with her mother. Christie Brinkley and daughter walk the Elie Tahari runway 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Yet, despite all this, it was rightly deemed ridiculous when Brady & Company, with straight faces, declared themselves overlooked. The New England Patriots Keep Winning Super Bowls 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Whatever they pay these movie stars to keep a straight face, it’s not enough. The Beige Noir of “Serenity” 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z With a straight face, Phillips calls the divisional playoff showdown “a revenge game for me.” Rams, Cowboys seek long-awaited postseason breakthroughs 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Or are we meant to say with a straight face than Orban’s illiberal democracy is worse than the unvarnished and violent dictatorship in Beijing? Opinion | What Happens When a Holocaust Memorial Plays Host to Autocrats 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z And we are expected to listen, with a straight face, when candidates proclaim that government itself should be run like a business. New Sentences: From ‘Winners Take All,’ by Anand Giridharadas 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Kudlow couldn’t say with a straight face, “Of course the president understands his own trade agenda,” because he – like the rest of us – knows that plainly isn’t true. Trump stumbles over his confusion about his own trade policy 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “Like old times,” said Woods, somehow managing to keep a straight face. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson add scrappy to crappy in The Match | Ewan Murray 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z But he couldn’t quite keep a straight face. Why Adrián Beltré, a Great Baseball Weirdo, Was My Favorite Player 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z In that same interview with Wallace, who generally managed to keep a straight face, Trump went out of his way to attack retired Adm. Opinion | It’s time for the rats to leave Trump’s sinking ship 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z “We are in a good position,” running back Frank Gore said with a straight face. Dolphins at .500 as usual with faint playoff hopes 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z I also realize it’s awfully difficult to argue with a straight face that this president is “draining the swamp” when so many people around him are currently awaiting sentencing. White House ally sees Team Trump's indictments as out of bounds 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z “We believe he is a good man and a good coach who is devoted to the well-being of the student-athletes under his charge,” Brady said with a straight face. Perspective | Maryland ought to be ashamed 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Ahmadinejad took it seriously though, and replied Tuesday with a seemingly straight face, prompting further trolling responses. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad weighs in on Michigan Wolverines 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z How can they say this with a straight face? Video from 2011 creates headaches for Sinema 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z No 10 insisting with a straight face the rehearsed spontaneity of the Maybot dancing was just spontaneous. Why was May dancing? And did it work? 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z It was one of several rather obvious lies the president repeated during his speech, which makes it rather foolish for Haley to say with a straight face that diplomats “love that he’s honest with them.” Haley: Foreign leaders 'love to be' with Trump, admire his 'honesty' 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Claire squeals, slaps him and cusses at him, but keeps a straight face. Kavanaugh’s accuser waited decades to tell her story. Teenagers of the 1980s aren’t surprised. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z And how can Alvarez say with a straight face that he couldn’t knock out Golovkin because he fought with an injured right hand? He's funny, provocative and the reason Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez want to destroy each other 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Laughably, and with a completely straight face, Urena tried to make himself out as the real victim in all this . Column: Suspend Urena for rest of season for plunking Acuna 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z “It was hard to keep a straight face and not bust out laughing,” Stallworth said. ‘BlacKkKlansman’: How black detective Ron Stallworth infiltrated the Colorado Klan 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Let’s see him try yelling “infield fly” with a straight face again. Miffed manager gives young fan an odd souvenir 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z “I would have a pretty good squad, I think, if I played,” he said with a completely straight face. Rams’ Wade Phillips not slowing down in 41st training camp 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He managed, somehow, to keep a straight face. What does childbirth feel like? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Nell Frizzell 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “Whatever happens, keep a straight face,” Jackson said, recalling the words of an early pitching coach, Marty Reed. 13 Teams Over 16 Seasons, but He Is More Than a Journeyman 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z “It’s hard to keep a straight face when you hear stuff like that,” Mr. McConnell said Monday on the chamber floor. Democrats to vote ‘No’ on Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee regardless of who he picks 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z In our rambles together by subway and bus through the arteries and capillaries of what he calls, with a straight face, New York City’s “quite fabulous system,” I never saw him sit down. Can Andy Byford Save the Subways? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z “No drugs, no alcohol. No. Nothing like that. He’s got a straight face all the time.” Accused Gunman in Capital Gazette Shooting Left a Trail of Conflicts 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Gun control advocates organize boycotts to “defund the NRA”; unions still get called “big labor” with a straight face by business lobbies that outspend them 10 to 1. After the supreme court blow, unions should look to a new model: the NRA | Michael Paarlberg 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z And he mostly kept a straight face as he said it. Servais: Who was that mustachioed man? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z They are merely expressions of the “free speech” of enthusiastic supporters, he insists with an admirably straight face. Congo’s Kabila chases an unconstitutional, unpopular re-election 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “I can’t — it’s hard to read this stuff with a straight face,” Brzezinski said, calling to mind the time she famously ripped up a script reporting news about reality TV star Paris Hilton. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski delivers the truth about Donald Trump: "He’s obsessed with money and... 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, again this morning, the American president managed to say with a straight face that he’s been Putin’s “worst nightmare.” Trying to help Putin (again), Trump wants Russia readmitted into G-7 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z I wonder if the regents will manage to collectively keep a straight face. Pac-12 Stock Report: Maybe WSU could use those Starbucks gift cards Mike Hopkins is giving out 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Readers may have had a hard time keeping a straight face reading the article about Republican state leaders calling for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to release her tax returns. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z "Ruined the whole team," Reaves said Tuesday, somehow keeping a straight face. Along with brawn, Ryan Reaves has provided the Golden Knights with big goals in the postseason 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z “Well, my golf game has really suffered because of football,” he said with a straight face. Center of Attention: Nick Mangold retires as member of Jets 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “I’m in awe of how you say what you say with a straight face,” she told him. President Trump Talked Tough. But His Strike on Syria Was Restrained. 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But Cruz couldn’t maintain a straight face to keep up his ruse. Nelson Cruz expects to be in the Mariners lineup on Saturday, plus other injury updates 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z I do fault you for keeping a straight face while trying convince us that you did so while your concern was for the well-being of Facebook users and society at large. What You Don’t Know About How Facebook Uses Your Data 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Really, how can anybody with a straight face support the republican fiscal agenda? White House Turf Battle Threatens to Delay Tax Law Rollout 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Given a rare moment in the spotlight, he is to be commended for doing so with a completely straight face. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Bench coach Chip Hale is more businesslike, a guy with a straight face amid the antics, more disciplined than chill — a surefire skeptic of all these tactics, if anyone would be. Dave Martinez is making the Nationals chill out. Will that help them win, too? 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z When told Clinton was on his way, Woods replied with a straight face, “I can’t wait to talk about p----.” Tiger’s 2006 Round of Golf With Bill Clinton - Golf Digest 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “Well, I think Mark messed that up for us,” Nowitzki said, with a straight face. Not everyone playing by the spirt of NBA tanking guideline 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z “And how, with a straight face, do you say you’re opposed to discrimination and then - in the same breath! - say you’re working with a bigot like Farrakhan on discrimination issues?” he asked. Rep. Andre Carson blasts Jewish group calling for him to resign over Farrakhan connection 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “Chickens were our entertainment,” Partridge says with a straight face. Former preacher finds calling as Alabama folk artist 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z The reason the President could even suggest, with a straight face, arming teachers is because he cannot put himself in anyone's shoes. Trump Suggests Teachers Get a ‘Bit of a Bonus’ to Carry Guns 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z I imagine it was hard for him to keep a straight face when he said it. Trump’s Stance on Russia Sanctions Angers Both Moscow and Washington 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin nearly sprained her jaw keeping a straight face. Democrats, you’ve been had 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z I defy anyone to stand up with a straight face and say they are surprised by Trump’s remark. Opinion | Trump and ‘shithole’: I’m shocked, shocked! 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Its minimal coverage of Venezuelans and North Koreans – groups unlikely to reach the US in great numbers – is just enough to allow government lawyers to deny discriminatory intent with a straight face. Will religion decide the fate of the Guantánamo Bay detainees? | Aziz Huq 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Remember when they used to argue – with a straight face – that literally no one from Trump’s operation was in communications with Russians during the foreign attack on the American elections? GOP senator: Trump has changed his mind about Russian interference 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z “And at that time,” he said with a straight face, “I was the chief.” John Young, moon walker and NASA’s longest-serving astronaut, dies at 87 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z And when we discuss the wage gap between men and women, you get the argument that women “choose” lesser-paid jobs made with a straight face... We Asked Women in Blue-Collar Workplaces About Harassment. Here Are Their Stories. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z This spin on nepotism as anything other than draining the public's wallet is a lie even a toddler would have trouble saying with a straight face. E.P.A. Officials, Disheartened by Agency’s Direction, Are Leaving in Droves 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But he's also capable of saying, with a completely straight face, "I've never been more vulnerable financially. I have no money to give." Ridley Scott's achievement with 'All the Money in the World' goes beyond the Kevin Spacey scandal 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “This is like a nuclear weapon that grants wishes,” we are told by someone in a straight face. Review: ‘Bright’ is when Harry Potter vomits on a cop flick 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “Beyond Skyline” is a boldly bonkers film, and it leans into its genre goofiness with a straight face thanks to Grillo. A boldly bonkers 'Beyond Skyline' takes on alien invaders 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z A reporter wrote that with a straight face? Republican Tax Bill in Final Sprint Across Finish Line 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Riley kept a straight face, showed no angst and deflected the question. Nebraska’s Riley is business as usual amid coaching rumors 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z How can any Republican politician say with a straight face, that their tax bill supports the middle class. Ending Medical Tax Break Could Be a ‘Gut Punch’ to the Middle Class 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z "I can't even say it with a straight face!" she says, and it might be the most concentrated burst of emotion on the album. Taylor Swift's privacy is a public act on 'Reputation' – LA Times 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z “I give him more kisses than his wife,” Puig said, trying to keep a straight face. Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig Is an Object of Affection Once More 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Even more amazingly, he almost always got away with it, going on camera with an absolutely straight face to deliver his maddeningly inauthentic evangels to stunned newscasters. Scam artist Joey Skaggs shows how he fooled media in ‘Art of the Prank’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Indeed, it’s amazing anyone can still say the words “Nobel peace prize” with a straight face considering its recipients constitute a who’s who of hawks, hypocrites and war criminals. The Nobel peace prize is a who’s who of hawks, hawks, hypocrites and war criminals 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Of course, butlers always deliver with a straight face. 12 Shocking Things I Learned by Working as a Butler at the Plaza Hotel 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Grier joked, with a very straight face, that he wanted to work with the attorney general to end "years of unjust and immoral discrimination against... white people." David Alan Grier Wants to End years of 'Unjust and Immoral Discrimination' Against White People 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z But it’s the ridiculous lines that the characters deliver with straight faces that ensures no one involved in this show is taking any of its far-fetched scenarios too seriously. There's magic in 'Midnight, Texas' and its charming new take on spooky old stories 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z But even liberals can’t argue with a straight face that he’s wrong about mainstream media bias. Opinion | The media’s martyr complex is embarrassing 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Ricciardo injected some Australian humor into the build-up when he jokingly told Sky Sports television, while struggling to keep a straight face, that Baku had changed everything. Hamilton on top in Austrian GP practice 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Asked yesterday about the GOP plan’s Medicaid cuts, Kellyanne Conway said with a straight face, “These are not cuts to Medicaid.” Republicans reduced to lying about GOP health plan's Medicaid cuts 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z “This one’s more political,” he said with a straight face from his chair at the mixing board in the ground floor of Wilson’s studio. Roger Waters speaks out on a grand scale with new album, Us + Them tour 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z “Did you just ask that question with a straight face?” Stephen A. Smith debated Trump’s tweets with Ted Nugent on Fox News 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Prerequisites: Fear of death, calmness under pressure, ability to keep a straight face when someone tells you how much he trains…. trains! What kind of race should you run? - Golf Digest 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z SR: So how do people keep making this argument with a straight face? Greg Palast: Trump’s tax cuts are more evidence America’s greedy billionaires have staged a political coup 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z “I couldn’t see myself sitting on the sidelines with a straight face while this is going on,” he said. Want to Resist Trump or Make America Great Again? These People Switched Careers 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Both sides claim with a straight face that they were forced into this descent by the relentless and one-sided unreason of their opponents. Opinion | The Senate made its historic mistake, and it could get even worse 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z “Jamaica … it’s difficult because they’ve got that straight face like they don’t really want a picture but they do really,” he says, with more laughter. Raheem Sterling: ‘I’ve got that face people don’t like but I’m not a brat’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z “I want you armed for life,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said 12 years ago, barely able to keep a straight face on camera. The Kentucky Wildcats are the only honest team in college basketball 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “Both physically and mentally, he’s grown,” said Decker, with a perfectly straight face. ‘Mensch on a Bench’: Team Israel — and its mascot — winning at the World Baseball Classic 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z None of the angels could keep a straight face. Why is my daughter so different to me? | Emma Brockes 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Trudeau seemed to be struggling to keep a straight face at times as his American counterpart spoke. Justin Trudeau says it's not Canada's duty to 'lecture' Trump on immigration 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Firms like Blackstone will, with a straight face, argue that they are making American companies more efficient and that we are all better off as a result. Stephen Schwarzman’s Bad Business Advice 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The last time anyone might have done that with a straight face, we were two decades from online power rankings even existing. Opinion | The Wizards looked hopeless two months ago. Little did we know. 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z And then there is Pence, microphone in hand again, maintaining a straight face as he talks with two male classmates during a basketball halftime show. High school classmates saw Pence’s leadership 40 years ago 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z And the question still gets asked, seemingly with a straight face: what's wrong with our healthcare system? Do Markets Work in Health Care? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z So old-fashioned, that concern about “a straight face.” How do you spell fiscal hypocrisy? G-O-P 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Even in the internet age, Gawker, seemingly with a straight face, declared Le Train Bleu the best restaurant in the city in 2014. Le Train Bleu Is Departing Bloomingdale’s. A Rail Buff Sees It Off. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z However, the task may prove more difficult than expected for the late night pundit, as he’ll likely be expected to keep a straight face for at least part of the three-hour broadcast. A Brief History of Jimmy Fallon Laughing at Absolutely Everything 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z BUT — and I’m saying this with a straight face — the Huskies could have won that game. Sure, Alabama is better, but Huskies still could have won 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z I don't know how Stoke manager Mark Hughes managed to say Vardy deserved to be sent off in his post-match interview and keep a straight face. Garth Crooks' team of the week: Ibrahimovic, Hazard, Otamendi, Kolarov, Lingard 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Let’s see Gopher cheerleaders yell “Hold that line!” with a straight face. Richard Sherman and Seahawks would rather play on Thursday than watch this basketball game 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z |
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