with straight face

It’s important to have one, but you shouldn’t expect too much out of him,” General Dempsey said with straight face.

However, given that he spends most of the video for this entirely aggregational Euroguff being felt up by several of the most attractive females who have ever lived, in alarming states of undress, who am I to, with straight face, accuse him of failure?

It's a suspicion given further weight by her terrible response to the Hirschberg piece, a track called I'm a Singer, which – given that it's variously self-regarding, incoherent and hysterical, and contains the line "economics eats the poor like a Twix" delivered not merely with straight face but furrowed hear-my-wisdom brow – seems to go out of its way to sound exactly like the kind of song the person depicted in Hirschberg's profile might come up with … but let's not think about that either.

Then she avows, with straight face: "I believe in China's violent revolution, but I couldn't kick a nun."

The Israeli Foreign Office, contrary to its usual custom, did not attempt to deny the attack; not until four days later did a spokesman claim with straight face that the soldiers involved were not regulars but Allied veterans of World War II, now farming on the frontier, who had "lost patience."