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poker-faced

adjective as in deadpan

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Coach Matt Peet is normally poker-faced but laughed uproariously in the stand at the sheer impertinence and invention.

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This certainly isn’t the first time the typically poker-faced singer has had to shut down rumors about her body.

A melancholy tale of family dysfunction presented as a complicated crime thriller, it combines British regionalism with peak TV-style poker-faced comedy in a way that has made it a critical darling around the world.

Even as he struggles to hide the dough from his music-teacher girlfriend, Román comes under suspicion at work of being Morán’s accomplice, in scenes that briefly transform the movie into a poker-faced office comedy.

About 20 feet away, in the second row of the visitors’ gallery, was Jack Smith, the special counsel who had put him there, alert and poker-faced.

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