How To Use Straight face In A Sentence
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I tried so hard to keep a straight face but I just couldn't I went from anger to frustration to fear to indifference.
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I keep a straight face and the composure of a chemist dispensing a prescription.
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Welcome to November, a month that people take a little bit too seriously, a month of melancholy and corduroy, and the only time of year you'll hear New Yorkers utter the word "succotash" with a straight face on the crosstown bus ….
Eight Day Week
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Andy looked at her trying to keep a straight face but failed horridly as he laughed outright at her.
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Waxman can berate them for it all he wants, they can go up there and say with a straight face that their lawyers absolutely said they must do so and that Waxman is free to provide them with a contrary legal opinion if he likes.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
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She looked so ridiculous it was hard to keep a straight face.
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Taitz, who believes that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is building internment camps to house anti-Obama activists and that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez controls the software that runs American voting machines, makes for undeniably good television: She looks like a young Carol Channing, sounds like an overexcited Zsa Zsa Gabor, and has the ability to make absurd accusations with a completely straight face.
The Panic Virus
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This is so much balderdash that you wonder how it can be repeated with a straight face.
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But luckily, because we rehearsed it for five solid days before we performed it for an audience, we got used to the funniness of it and were able to keep a straight face.
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It is amazing the PM can maintain this charade with a straight face.
The Sun
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He had a straight face and his eyes were glued to his screen.
The Sun
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As I recall, the joke goes something like: The hardest part about being a farmer is learning to keep a straight face while saying “Tell those people in Washington to keep out of my business” in the same sentence as “where is my subsidy check”
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Utterly Without Shame
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In all those instances, the campaigns adopt an approach that could be described as antic whimsy, offering over-the-top statements that are delivered with a straight face - and tongue planted firmly in cheek.
NYT > Home Page
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Caborn, ever the professional, kept a straight face, but his civil service minder Phil Townsend had to leave the room, giggling as if he had partaken of too much of the plant's produce.
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Noelle grabbed me up in her arms and, with an incredibly straight face, started to lead me in what I think was a cha-cha.
Ominous
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Brian looked ridiculous in leather trousers, and I was desperately trying to keep a straight face.
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spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers
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You can talk about fashion in interior design with a reasonably straight face now.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a sad commentary that so many journalists mouthed such bunkum with straight faces - and that Americans didn't quickly laugh this grandiloquence out of the court of public opinion.
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Brian looked ridiculous in leather trousers, and I was desperately trying to keep a straight face.
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You can talk about fashion in interior design with a reasonably straight face now.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had a straight face and his eyes were glued to his screen.
The Sun
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He looked so ridiculous -- I don't know how I managed to keep a straight face.
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It solves another question, too: how she keeps a straight face when she sees the results of her sartorial advice.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the future, how can we make demands like that with a straight face - or will others pay any heed when we ignore the conventions and flout the rules ourselves?
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I don’t see how anyone who can argue with a straight face that the people were only opposed to same sex couples from Vermont coming here, that same sex couples getting married in California would be just jimdandy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » California legislature passes gay marriage bill for second time:
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At this point the cogs in my head started to turn and I almost died trying to keep a straight face.
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He gave a speech on his new charity work, and it was one of those smooth unctuous bits of California blarney no one could make with a straight face today.
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You have to wonder how anyone could say that seriously and with a straight face.
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Turning her straight face into a frown, she turned herself away from him.
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All I am saying is that if you start ironizing nationalities or putting them in quotation marks, you will never be able to speak of Taiwan or Taiwanese society with a straight face.
Chunghwamintzu Rulz: thanks for making my point
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But what possesses them to write such nonsense with a straight face is beyond me.
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How can Labour, with a straight face, call the Lib Dems two-faced?
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Their gaze is direct into the lens, with what might be described as a "straight face" common to the long exposure requirements of that era's photography.
John
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He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face.
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That's not to say that he has gone through the contest with an unyieldingly straight face.
Times, Sunday Times
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The claim has a certain surface plausibility, but it’s usually awfully hard to keep a straight face when contemplating particular examples, and the grounds for insisting that your retrospective intuition of obviousness is mistaken almost always amounts to pointing out that the first guy to file the patent was — they’ll keep saying it until you grasp this thorny concept — the first guy to file the patent.
Two Kinds of Innovation
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I'd supposed that after Fort Buford she might unbend a little; after all, by then I'd absorbed all there was to know of her Bismarck scheme, and seen the kind of country to be settled; I'd even drafted (with a straight face) a letter to Otto explaining the thing and inviting his approval-God alone knew what he'd make of it if it ever reached him, with my monicker on it.
Isabelle
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Brian looked ridiculous in leather trousers, and I was desperately trying to keep a straight face.
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Combined with this talent, Sellers had an incredible ability to improvise and wander away from the script in wild comic meanderings, which, on many occasions, prevented his co-star from keeping a straight face.
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What went through Tom's mind I can't imagine, but he did manage to keep a straight face.
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And therefore if a man have a lean and straight face, a Marquess Ottons cut will make it broad and large; if it be platter-like, a long, slender beard will make it seem the narrower; if he be weasel-becked, then much hair left on the cheeks will make the owner look big like a bowdled hen, and as grim as a goose, if Cornelis of Chelmersford say true.
Of Our Apparel and Attire. Chapter VII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 7
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Does it bother you at all that the President stands there on camera and just bullshits you with a straight face?
Think Progress » Plame to file civil lawsuit
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Elected officials, denying with straight faces that they are bigots or denying that they are answering to bigots, choose brazenly bigoted and insulting comments in justifying the repulsion.
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The actor adores pranks, especially the ones that require a straight face and his familiar lugubrious delivery.
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Can they lie with a straight face to their co-workers, customers or business associates?
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Can even the supporters of the bill doubt, with a straight face, that the reason for the contortion is that the effects of deeming are different from the effects of passage.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?
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Even if it's yes, given that I am asked such a point-blank question at a volume audible to the other colleagues, I have to keep up the straight face, put on the steady voice, maintain the poise and give a negative answer.
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Both she and Hope were desperately struggling to keep a straight face.
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With a straight face Speer appointed Ley on the spot " Commissioner of Death Ray ".
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I should have guessed that someone so apparently humourless could not keep a straight face for so long.
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I should have guessed that someone so apparently humourless could not keep a straight face for so long.
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You have to wonder how anyone could say that seriously and with a straight face.
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He stood straight faced at the front of the stage, not moving and barely shaking the tambourine he held throughout the night.
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I cannot see how the promoters of the European Constitution can still support it with a straight face.
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These facts he could deliver with a clear conscience and a straight face, and he did.
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How anybody can say this is good news - with a straight face - beats me.
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You can talk about fashion in interior design with a reasonably straight face now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back in the days when "webmaster in charge of bundling and streaming media" was a job description and people said "etailer" with a straight face, career counselors said the interview was a two-way street.
The 13 Warning Signs of Bad Companies to Work For
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He explains with a straight face that he has come to 2016 because only you can save mankind.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can talk about fashion in interior design with a reasonably straight face now.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Du Champ's mockery of the idea of selling Parisian air but done with a straight face to accent effect and Chief Seattle's sober and straight-faced, woeful delivery about the Anglo's deep-seated confusion about the relationships between man and Nature, as our current world situation regarding Japan and beyond bears out, we are ultimately faced with the idea "Is everything a commodity for sale, even the air?
Mitchell J. Rabin: Rachel Sequoia Branches Out to Invite us to Share the Air, for a Fee
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And therefore if a man have a lean and straight face, a Marquess Otton's cut will make it broad and large; if it be platter-like, a long, slender beard will make it seem the narrower; if he be weasel-becked, then much hair left on the cheeks will make the owner look big like a bowdled hen, and as grim as a goose, if Cornells of Chelmersford say true.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
