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词汇 example_english_straight-face
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Examples of straight face


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I congratulate him on being able to say it with a straightface.
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I do say it with a straightface.
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After all, it is a rare art to be able to do something with a straightface which is so palpably absurd.
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I noticed that he had difficulty in keeping a straightface while he said it.
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How can they possibly talk about thrift with a straightface?
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It was, of course, that very professionalism which allowed him to keep a straightface throughout the course of his discussion.
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He was a most amusing and courageous person, and like many of us, could not keep a straightface on parade.
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I simply do not know how he managed to keep a straightface as he read out those comments.
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He was able to make his remarks with a perfectly straightface.
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We all realise that it is extremely difficult to deliver that answer with a straightface.
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One can only applaud the commitment to national self-interest that can produce such a tenuous argument with a straightface.
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Can he look across at me with a straightface and say that he believes that people's civil liberties are being damaged?
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With an almost straightface, he tried several times to pretend that there was no filibuster yesterday evening.
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I shall do my best to keep a straightface and take them seriously.
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With an entirely straightface he gave attractive examples of the regulations which are likely to be reduced or repealed.
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He has been trying to keep a nice, straightface, but he cannot.
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He deployed theological disputes about ownership and managed to keep a straightface as he did so.
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Whatever their motivation is, they cannot maintain—not while keeping a straightface, anyway—that the highest increases have been awarded to efficient or well run councils.
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I am surprised that he was able to keep a straightface while asking that question.
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It is hard to explain it to people from overseas with an interest in politics while keeping a straightface.
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He stood up and, with a straightface, said that he would be perfectly happy to search for alternative anomalies.
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I am keeping a straightface—for the unpaid post of chairman of the charitable trust.
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I cannot keep a straightface.
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Try to keep a straightface.
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Now say that with a straightface.
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He did it with a straightface.
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He cannot seriously deny with a straightface, even at this hour of night, that he has lost that argument and several others as well with those in another place.
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And with a straightface!
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To proceed, carefully and deliberately, from nonsense, with a straightface, often arriving at a new kind of sense.
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But the director presents all this with such a straightface, that you find yourself lapping it all up.
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It derives from the fact that he always keeps a straightface and never smiles or frowns during a match.
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In terms of portrayal, she said that keeping a straightface while showing suppressed emotion was an enjoyable challenge.
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The fact is she knew the jokes were funny indeed, but, as a seasoned actress and a professional, kept a straightface no matter what.
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When he was on air, he admits, he often couldn't keep a straightface.
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The stories include bizarre plots, campy acting, and dead pan humor, as long as the actors can keep a straightface.
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With a straightface too.
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They can say that and keep straight faces, only because they have split minds.
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If we do not understand it, how shall we be able, with straight faces, to tell people what it means?
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The actors who appeared in the sketch had trouble keeping straight faces.
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Haynes and others sometimes failed to keep a straightface, and occasionally burst into laughter.
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Ashfield claimed that on set, struggled to keep a straightface most of the time.
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Valle couldn't stop laughing for the last couple of verses- supposedly he struggled to keep a straightface at the corny lyrics, and the band members egged him on.
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