poker-faced

How To Use poker-faced In A Sentence

• One can easily toss away the chair and buy a plastic one, he tells poker-faced officials, but if it were repaired and cleaned, the Ming chair would be worth 10, 000 plastic chairs.
• Throughout his treatise Pope maintains the pose of the poker-faced instructor.
• Why we like him: Stunned Man (2004) features a dizzyingly brilliant absurdist slapstick routine in which a poker-faced guy destroys his apartment, dives into the bathroom mirror and reappears through the door to begin the whole process afresh. Artist of the week 110: Julian Rosefeldt
• His clipped voice and poker-faced appearance point to a rather humourless, intimidating figure, but his weary stoicism and commitment to the truth make him the kind of man you would want on your side when the chips fall.
• She sat poker-faced all the way through the film.
• In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry.
• ‘No,’ I lied, poker-faced and unhappy that the story had gotten out.
• That said, the Cleveland performances were oddly disappointing: inflexible, poker-faced, and without a hint of the sensuous rubato that gives this music its infectious lilt.
• It's from a theatrical point of view that she still loves teen angst for its poker-faced combination of melodramatic sincerity and unintended cringe humour.
• The Cleveland performances were oddly disappointing: inflexible, poker-faced, and without a hint of the sensuous rubato that gives this music its infectious lilt.