How To Use Po-faced In A Sentence
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What a depressing lack of sense too from this increasingly po-faced Government, which displayed once more its desire to interfere, to have something to say about everything.
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She looks a bit po-faced.
Times, Sunday Times
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Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time.
The Secret of Kells
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The woman in the bookshop certainly seems rather po-faced.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't think Strauss wrote for such a po-faced, reverent audience.
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Returning to his point about some punk bands being too po-faced to pogo or even crack a smile, ironically he reckons that the punk scene could do with unfolding its arms and letting its hair down.
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Catherine wheels, rockets and penny bungers have been dumped in favour of a pair of fiscally responsible and po-faced nature lovers hanging precariously in the trees flashing their $2 torches.
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Any social commentary is mostly of the exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin variety and is ultimately po-faced and humourless.
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No; in Labour, box-ticking, Britain the response is a po-faced "We take the sale of alcohol to underage people extremely seriously.
The UK's box-ticking culture
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Watching a po-faced segment where a schoolgirl is falsely led to believe her parents have died from heroin abuse in an attempt to ward her off drugs elicits a mixed response.
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In the British press at least, there is a tradition of publishing spoof articles in as po-faced a fashion as possible on April 1st and seeing how many people fall for them.
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In fact, some self-help books intended as parodies of the genre contain more sensible advice than those offered in po-faced seriousness.
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According to my great-grandfather's slightly po-faced obituarist in The Gippsland Times, "His Lordship referred in eloquent terms to the life of the deceased.
Archive 2009-03-01
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They can be slightly po-faced affairs and often there will be slightly mental or self-obsessed people in the audience who ask strange or self-aggrandising questions.
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Certainly, as a corrective to some of the more po-faced excesses of cool London club culture, rave was a blast of fresh air, an important rupture.
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So it goes with the po-faced and utterly humourless 911.
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She's good company - chatty and funny with a penchant for comedy accents - but becomes focused and a bit po-faced when the tape's running.
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She loud, she's brash and she's winding up po-faced moral guardians by subverting sexual stereotypes.
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And he wants them to stop being so po-faced about gambling - a sin in which he enthusiastically indulges, at least when it involves gee-gees.
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Getting po-faced about iconic images would not help.
Times, Sunday Times
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That makes it sound so po-faced and worthy that I can feel a yawn overpowering me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Normally po-faced and formal, these parties give the girls their only chance of social interaction, which for them means dancing like mad and giggling at the ineptitude of their partners.
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All this po-faced hand-wringing is rather missing the point.
The Sun
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It's not just the tedium of the job - literally a daily grind, as they mash packets of powder into useable paint - it's the po-faced seriousness with which everyone around them gets on with things.
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Would I have been too po-faced to fancy them at 18?
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These East Africans have a healthy, smart, informed scepticism and the media manages to remain admirably po-faced when dealing with delicate political issues.
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It is all probably sensible advice, but if you are an anxious parent you will be able to look after your kids already, and if you don't care then a po-faced web site isn't going to make a difference.
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Did I really need to be so po-faced and serious?
Times, Sunday Times
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His background and early experiences could not have been more different from the era of counselling, victim status for minorities and po-faced reprobation of so-called ‘xenophobia’.
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Whilst it could be argued that it is po-faced to talk about truth in the biography of a fictional character, the counter-argument is that the constant toying with fiction and fact is ultimately frustrating.
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The bust of a long-dead local worthy looms over his shoulder, po-faced, rectitudinous, dour.
The Golden Age at Its Best
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It takes that understanding and throws it back in our faces, challenging us to participate in what is really a sustained assault on the cult of po-faced victimology and its politically correct excesses.
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Still, it does not pay to get too po-faced about this because then we miss the fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thing that really grates, though, is the po-faced sermonising on global warming and heavy-handed attempts to make Serious Points about Serious Issues.
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Pontevedro, in Giles Havergal's enticingly louche production, is one of those po-faced principalities whose chief characteristic is taking itself just a little too seriously.
The Merry Widow – review
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This was the ladette generation who dreaded men thinking them po-faced.
Times, Sunday Times
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We imposed it, in our po-faced, disciplinarian way, on our colonial subjects around the world, and they loved it so much that they are still using it, long after we've gone.
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The writer's po-faced style occasionally irritates: do people really need reminding that cases of bubonic plague should be treated immediately?
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Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time.
The Secret of Kells
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Life is too short to get all po-faced about athletes using Tinder or getting together for a roll in the snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's disappeared in recent years - the Dalton films were very po-faced and they've had trouble shaking that seriousness off.
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While our po-faced American cousins talk in learned terms of David's ‘high art’, we taunt the illusionist with bacon sandwiches and try to cut off his water supply.
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It assumes a cultural context where prejudices such as homophobia are understood, and where laughter becomes a weapon to be used against them, as well as against the po-faced extremes of political correctness.
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The downside is that all we have here is a very long, very po-faced, mystic, pseudo-religious battle between our old mates good and evil.
