deadpan

How To Use deadpan In A Sentence

• Those of you too lazy to hit the last link won't understand this, but the key to a successful performance of this story is to remain deadpan. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
• His features were deadpan but his voice was bursting with emotion.
• In conversation he speaks with the measured tone of a comic actor used to delivering deadpan one-liners. Times, Sunday Times
• It has been widely called overlong, empty, boring, and deadpan.
• He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
• She delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice.
• He plays it deadpan, with impeccable style and fastidious attention to detail, but of course that only enhances the absurdity.
• Stiles especially shows a talent for deadpan comedy that very few of her recent films have given her the opportunity to show.
• The Fates are aligned in the form of the title outfit, led by a no-nonsense operative named Richardson, played by John Slattery in a crafty, deadpan take. Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Adjustment Bureau,' an ambitious, impressive thriller
• There is something cartoonish about him - dangling arms, head that looks like its rolling off his neck, lumpish face and deadpan expression.