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Origin of deadpan
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Contemporary Examples of deadpan
The Garfield specials are also unique for their deadpan delivery and oftentimes bleak worldview.
But something about the cover image—four deadpan dudes against a robin's-egg blue background—spoke to me, I guess.
Remembering Weezer’s ‘The Blue Album,’ A Garage Rock Classic, on Its 20th AnniversaryAndrew Romano
May 10, 2014
But he had his own defenses, a great off-hand resilience and a deadpan humor, and he survived.
“I could tell you missed me more than I missed you,” Tom says, deadpan.
Homes carries off her fiction-writing Nixon with deadpan wit.
Historical Examples of deadpan
Suzanne looked closely at him—he was so deadpan, it was hard to tell what was on his mind.
MakersCory Doctorow
She continued to stare, deadpan and blank-eyed, with no answering flicker of a smile.
The Stars, My BrothersEdmond Hamilton
deadpan
adjective, adverb
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