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Example sentences for: deadpan

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And it's delivered in a deadpan style that seems clearly borrowed from Johnny Carson.
The New Yorker attributes the Onion 's wildly popular deadpan humor to its location.
The script gives Grant a series of deadpan one-upmanships; what saves him from seeming like an utter snob is his habit of drawing attention to his own foolishness with a lovably self-deprecating stammer.
Its secret is deadpan parodies of news stories ("Report: Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids").
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).