(Roth writes some of his most hilariously straight-faced satirical passages about the camp's pseudo-Indian rituals.) ❋ David Finkle (2010)
The stations, in turn, have a monopoly on the broadcast spectrum, which we -- the owners of the spectrum -- license to them in exchange for zero dollars, plus their straight-faced promise to serve the public interest. ❋ Marty Kaplan (2011)
How is it then that Hulse can write a straight-faced memo about the GOP's desire to bring fiscal sanity to the country without so much as hinting that there are reasons to doubt the party's integrity on these issues? ❋ Jonathan Weiler (2011)
The tilt-a-whirl folk track "Fool to Love (Like I Do)" is a straight-faced take on bad '60s psych/garage rock that sounds as if it came from another album, one that raises more questions (why would anyone want to do a straight-faced take on bad '60s psych/garage rock?) than it answers. ❋ Allison Stewart (2011)
But in Bender's rendering it becomes an utterly straight-faced account of a man with a quaintly unconventional sexual proclivity who is given to such statements as Desire is a house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"I would like to be 6-0," the notoriously tough—and straight-faced—Tom Coughlin said. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)
Politics being politics, none of that history stopped Mr. Obama from suggesting, straight-faced, that Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Dean had worked together in 2006, as he offered his tribute to the outgoing chairman. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By the mid-1960s, straight-faced Westerns seemed clichéd. ❋ Don Steinberg (2011)
The "event" that proves to be the "most significant" in the narrator's life thus ensues, his account of it typically (and hilariously) straight-faced: ❋ Unknown (2009)
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 (2011)
Whatever Borg repressed in all those years of straight-faced, emotionless tennis, he's thrown on these wildly-patterned, sunglass-requiring briefs. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2011)
Not one to put all my eggs in one proverbial basket, I always keep my American passport, along with credit cards and my American bank card in another location – however, my Azeri bank card, along with my Azeri passport, about 30 manat ($45) and 4 straight-faced passport photos of me were in there. ❋ Jenni's Life At The Moment (2009)
Ultimately Pynchon's idiosyncratic appropriation of the "novel of detection" is much more satisfying than Johnson's straight-faced mimicry of the "noir" crime story. ❋ Unknown (2010)
