And that is why if you click here you will see one of the Challenge winners, the hilariously straightfaced Codru Vrabe, at the 3 minute mark, explaining his project, Bribe Market, which is based on the simple idea that if you are going to have to pay bribes for basic services, you ought to be able to shop for the cheapest bribe. ❋ Daniel Ben-Horin (2011)
Bob stood up straightfaced and told of Gangas Rulfus, a man he met one day on the street. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The item most to be treasured is the straightfaced report that Israelis were smuggling a chewing gum with special properties into Egypt. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But just as rich was the reporter's straightfaced question that followed: "Are you getting a lot of that, Mr. Vice President?" ❋ Unknown (2008)
Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith says that while in jail, Laney has at times been calm and straightfaced, other times curled up in a fetal position sobbing, and sometimes singing church hymns and praising God out loud. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If anything, they seem bent on making sure the MSM coverage of her is fair to the point of flattering on that note, I will always treasure this straightfaced headline from Media Matters: "Time.com's Cox latest to attack Sen. Clinton on her voice". ❋ Unknown (2007)
Pal Ian notes, quite rightly, that there's a conflict between Jim Lee's straightfaced approach to the art and the seeming smirk in Frank Miller's writing. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Now, it's...well, it's all so serious and straightfaced..."look how beautiful our strong, independent female character is." ❋ Unknown (2005)
I still refer to her, not completely straightfaced, as "Satan" when I tell certain anecdotes. ❋ Gwenda (2003)
He'd hunker down and listen to her chatter, carry on a straightfaced conversation like with an equal. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)
I think that's what -- I don't know if you'd call it outrage -- but that's what really amazes me, this ability to have something awful happen in your career or personal life and then the next day pretend as if nothing has happened and go on with your business straightfaced. ❋ Unknown (1994)
We've taken counsel's opinion, "says he, straightfaced," but the position is complicated by the fact that the widow was last heard of fleeing for her life from a beleaguered fort, while Goolab, who had designs on the Punjab throne at one time, has lately proclaimed himself King of Kashmir, and is sitting behind a rock up Jumoo way, with fifty thousand hillmen at his back. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)
“We were lovers, you see,” Simon lied straightfaced to Geof. ❋ Nancy Pickard (1987)
"You couldn't get a gnat in there now, man," Seaman Bodine shaking his head, dexterously rolling a reefer one-handed on a cigarette paper he has first torn, with straightfaced bravura, in half. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
Later, as the news spreads with the virus and terror propels the population into rabid belligerence, the movie sedates its pulse, softens its focus and threatens to become a straightfaced ❋ Unknown (2011)
