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Example sentences for: deadpan

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The article, though, did have one memorable bit of deadpan humor.
Like other blockbusters, it may suffer from a "perilously thin" plot (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ), but that's "the least important thing" about the movie ( Newsweek ). Instead, reviewers revel in its deadpan humor, stylish costumes, and comic performances, particularly that of Tommy Lee Jones--"registering levels of cool that would cause most actors to snap in half" (Lane).
By the end, Lester is mouthing the same sentiments and has acquired the same deadpan radiance.
Its deadpan attitude and traditional plot--thieves heist jewelry and then double-cross one another--are said to hark back to classic film noir.
These monochrome "accumulations," as repetitively patterned as the infinity nets, have a deadpan wit quite different from Claes Oldenburg's squishily theatrical hamburgers and lipsticks, with which they were sometimes shown in early Pop Art exhibitions.