Dead-pan

He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”

Jimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes.

It might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue.

There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.

Dead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go.

"Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.

They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings.

The older people have “Japanesey” dead-pans, whereas many of the American generation can display a great variety of emotions facially.

Good coarse romantic-adventure nonsense, exploiting the expressive dead-pans of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell, a young man and a young woman who would probably enjoy doing in real life what they have to do here for RKO.

"I've long admired men who have risen from humble beginnings," Mulholland says, and then dead-pans: "Dr. Laffer was educated at Yale."