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The third installment, “Venom: The Last Dance,” rounds out the trio of films, which are both straight-faced and irreverent, creating a campy tone all their own, distinct from the more self-serious superheroes or the sarcastically self-referential ones.

And indeed, little really happens in screenwriter Evan Johnson’s mélange of lowbrow humor and high-concept wit beyond the straight-faced delivery of bursts of ridiculous dialogue and weird encounters with the self-pleasuring bog people — and eventually, a glistening, car-sized brain.

She said her husband often appeared straight-faced and serious, but behind the façade was a deeply kind and caring man.

"I am not guilty, your honour," he told Magistrate Judge Katharine Parker with a straight-faced expression, according to reporters in court.

Harris, in a manner befitting her prosecutorial background, expertly baited Trump into ditching the low-key, straight-faced tone he assumed in the first 15 minutes and got him riled up enough to babble about his pet peeves—crowd sizes, immigrants, foreign dictators, etc.—in an incoherent and off-putting manner.