pokerfaced

After the guilty verdict was announced—the capstone of his career—Bragg stared ahead pokerfaced.

Mr. Johns likes a good myth — but whatever inspired him, America’s most pokerfaced painter embraced something like total abstraction in the 1970s, via mirrored or syncopated fields of back-and-forth lines that, on occasion, obfuscated underlying images or designs.

Soufiane, 34, is tall, with a ponytail and a pokerfaced expression.

Bjorn Borg, the pokerfaced Swede who was the best men’s claycourt player in history until Nadal’s emergence, dropped only 32 games en route to the 1978 French Open title.

Pokerfaced in its commitment to genre conventions, and madcap in its world building, it manages to involve listeners in the lives of its characters, despite the profound goofiness of everything that comes out of their mouths.