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I don't think art needs to be po-faced to be real.

It is certainly true that Becker can come across as laughably po-faced.

Perhaps it's time to drop the po-faced solemnity about our final frontier.

It is obvious that responding with such po-faced opprobrium is humorless in the extreme.

Some of the books we read were very po-faced, and not in the best way.

Those po-faced purveyors of fake news, claims the president, do not take him seriously as a comedian.

The po-faced top tens weren't interested in Rae Sremmurd's boundless joy and charged club thumpers, it seems.

There is, however, a difference between treating your chosen subject matter with seriousness and being flat-out po-faced.

The Guardian had no choice but to turn the whole thing into a po-faced reminder about global warming.

And yet, this pair of po-faced techno titans have become embraced by even the cheekiest of the cheeky clubbers.

Adults could be harder work, especially those who saw religion as a po-faced Sunday duty, not to be taken lightly.

The Soulpepper "Spoon River" — directed by Albert Schultz with music by Mike Ross, who together adapted the book — avoids po-faced reverence.

The country was three years into the nationwide prohibition of alcohol which had been forced through by the po-faced campaigners of the temperance movement.

Nearly all of its vistas incorporate grey sand, dark skies, driving rain or thick fog, while most of its po-faced characters are dressed in black and khaki.

To bankers and traders keen to let rip, they are the po-faced types who frown at any transaction that might breach this rule or contravene that regulation.

The former maintains a po-faced seriousness even as it tumbles into high-concept lunacy, while the latter is a film about taking it easy that takes it easy.

The task you're set with is impossible: to make a po-faced epic out of a game where you punch people's heads off after freezing them with ice grenades.

In this brief excerpt, a rowdy student is lecturing the po-faced teacher on the importance of fun in education — a maxim that opera composers heed all too rarely.

It's lascivious and visceral and the fact it upset po-faced adults and this BBC reviewer alike is testament to how quickly people could forget the simple joys of being horny.

According to a po-faced bouncer at the door (no, not Sven), Skepta's flight into Berlin—presumably from Austria, where he'd played at Snowbombing festival the night before—had been delayed by an hour.

And obviously, you have to be a bit po-faced if you're wearing fluffy slippers and a huge feather hat — otherwise they're just going to laugh you out of the room because you look like Zoolander.

It looks like a bunch of po-faced coaches in unconscionable windbreakers muttering into headsets while olympian physical specimens shrug and wait and a bunch of rich men seethe and pound scotch in their luxury boxes.

So often with games, everything feels like it has to be serious and po-faced, that every character has to have a backstory where their mother died in a horrible fire and their father drinks to forget.

When Hillary Clinton, running for president, unwisely referred to some Americans as "deplorables", some of her critics embraced that term as a badge of honour—an ironic stance meant to contrast with their supposedly po-faced adversaries.

A po-faced kid takes violent revenge on his rapist after getting abused during a hunting excursion, and Eisener works the sight of the deer (its lifeless black eyes, the mighty arch of its antlers) for all it's worth.

Aside from the fact that it might cost them a lot of money (that $131 million would be $216 million today), they can no longer be so po-faced about the matter now that they screwed up as much as the Great Satan.

The radically bright fields of color and disappearance of depth that characterize Gauguin's Polynesian paintings are already visible in his 1888 masterwork "Vision of the Sermon," whose po-faced, white-capped Bretonnes watch Jacob wrestle with the angel on a field of solid, blazing red.

But prestige dramas, especially those canonized flagship series that were credited with ushering in the so-called golden age of TV we may or may not still be enjoying, have been so predominantly masculine that the label is still habitually applied to a certain type of po-faced product regardless of whether there's any prestige to it or not.

The department wrote that the rejection of the essay came out of concern that readers might not take kindly to a piece lauding Britain's food while rationing was still in place after World War II. "The organization in those days was somewhat po-faced and risk-averse," Mr. Donaldson said, using a phrase to describe a humorless stance.

Another charge is that all of this over the top feeling (He touched my arm … quiver … Angel of Jesus deliver me!) is too overblown to feel real and that Stevens is a po-faced peddler of emotion, a mechanical maker of melancholy, a simulator of the profound truths that run through our lives who has no sense of humour or irony about what he's doing.

For one thing, North American metal fans deserve a damn break after staring wistfully across the ocean towards the Wackens, Hellfests, or Nuclear War Nows of the world; for another, especially at this point in time, I am thrilled to not have to whip out my passport and explain myself (and my blasphemous sartorial decisions) to a phalanx of po-faced border guards on my way to heavy metal hell.

But to me, the scurrilousness has the pasty complexion of po-faced error.

"Paper Giants' recruitment of humour…is an important corrective to the cliché of humourless feminists and to po-faced and hubristic accounts of radical political movements".

'Interiors' was about Willem de Kooning, Richey had endless reference points. We've always had that desire to pass on. We're always seen as quite a negative, po-faced band, but we're not. It's just been about passing on our love of our inspiration.

Cameron argued that "the key to accepting a Luvvie is not to take yourself too seriously", and said that if she were presented with a Luvvie she would "welcome it with open arms – otherwise you might look a bit po-faced and silly".

All of these were set in the real world of the present day, but involved fantastical and horrific threats to the central characters, and possessed a wit and self-awareness that had perhaps been lacking in some of their more po-faced science-fiction predecessors, not to mention much lower costs to produce.

According to DJ Dave Seaman, the sound faced a backlash in the early 1990s because "it had gone the same way as progressive rock before it. Pompous, po-faced and full of its own self importance. But basically was really quite boring." The label progressive house was often used interchangeably with trance in the early years.

We [the characters in the film] don't know who to support. Sometimes, Kirk, he seems to be acting in exactly the same way as him [Harrison]. They're both motivated by revenge. And the Into Darkness in the title is less an idea of this new trend of po- faced, kind of, everything's-got-to-be-a-bit-dour treatments of essentially childish stories.

The first half dances between feverish house, dazed electronica, rave, techno and dub, the second comprises ambient and slightly po-faced pieces built from piano figures and synth washes. The overriding impression of both modes is nostalgia, not least for the uplifting, utopian properties of dance music." Ryan Middleton of Magnetic Magazine added, "Moby finds himself surging around his various influences on this album.

Baker's life partner, Ron Robertson, believes that this difficulty led Baker on a quick, downwards emotional spiral. Baker killed himself at his home on November 5, 1997, by asphyxiation in his garage. His death was noted in literary circles and mainstream press; the Gay Times in the United Kingdom wrote, "Baker's suicide is particularly tragic because it robs American gay writing of a refreshingly distinctive voice quite unlike the po-faced prose of so many of his contemporaries."Wagner, Erica.

The band's penchant for addressing political and social issues, as well as their staid depiction in Corbijn's black-and-white sleeve photographs, contributed to the group's earnest and serious image as "stone-faced pilgrim[s]". This image became a target for derision after the band's critically maligned Rattle and Hum project in 1988. Various critics called them "po-faced", "pompous bores", and "humourless". The group's continued exploration of American music for the project was labelled "pretentious" and "misguided and bombastic".

Despite being particularly proud of his working class status, Terry is notably workshy, informing Bob in one episode that he has 'dropped out of the rat race'. Terry often uses his previous Army service (in "the hot tropic night") to avoid working, because of his "dodgy spine", "Burmese malaria", and other mysterious ailments (including a never explained leg injury). Terry is down to earth, quick witted, po faced and cynical. He aggressively dislikes being referred to as 'thin' or 'slim', preferring instead to describe himself as 'wiry'.

"Christmas Tree" received mixed reviews from critics. Alex Rawls of OffBeat gave a positive review as part of the "25 Days of Free" offer from Amazon.com. Joking that the artists of the more religious songs must be "praying" for Lady Gaga, Rawls described the song as "not so po-faced" as the five songs released before it was made available on December 6, 2009. Estrella Adeyeri, the music editor of Nouse, gave the song a positive review, complimenting its "synth beats and numerous yuletide innuendos".

In all the Culture stories, Banks subverts many clichés of space opera. The Minds are not plotting to take over the universe, and no-one is following a grand plan. The darkly comic double-act of Ferbin and Holse in Matter is not something most writers would place in "the normally po-faced context of space opera". Even the names of Culture spaceships are jokes – for example Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill, Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall (part of a running gag in the series Originally published in The Guardian, 2000) and Liveware Problem (see liveware).

Peel also argues that of all Gerry Anderson's series, it is Stingray in which his preferred "tongue-in-cheek" style of humour is most prominent. Mike Fillis of TV Zone magazine regards Stingray as less "ambitious" than Thunderbirds but compares its "self-awareness" favourably to the "po-faced rigidity" of Captain Scarlet. He also praises its "well-drawn" characters and describes the water-based special effects as "surprisingly elegant". Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping, authors of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, view the effects as more "realistic" than those of earlier Anderson series.

Boyle convinced Welsh to let them option the rights to his book by writing him a letter stating that Hodge and Macdonald were "the two most important Scotsmen since Kenny Dalglish and Alex Ferguson". Welsh remembered that originally the people wanting to option his book "wanted to make a po-faced piece of social realism like Christiane F or The Basketball Diaries". He was impressed that Boyle, Hodge and Macdonald wanted everyone to see the film and "not just the arthouse audience". In October 1994, Hodge, Boyle and Macdonald spent a lot of time discussing which chapters of the book would and would not translate into film.

This is a book more about the vulva itself than simply the vagina – labia and clitoris get their fair share of attention – but Rees acknowledges the sensationalist desire to talk simply about the part that gets penetrated and the way this obscures women's sexual desire. Would The Vulva Monologues have garnered quite that much attention?" She concluded her review by writing, "Rees lacks Wolf's sometimes po-faced anger, instead mixing her feminist outrage with a healthy dose of humour. Ever the cunning linguist, she leaves no pun unmade, but doesn’t skimp on the theory either, the perfect antidote for those feminists who find too much of the terminology dry and academic.

Manson agreed, and took a three-month sabbatical with Jake in Spain. Returning, he confided in DC Stevie Moss that he was "less than successful" with Jake. While initially filled with a burning ambition and disregard for victims of crime, the personal crises Manson experienced while at Sun Hill noticeably mellowed him out, although he remained close-lipped and emotionally repressed; described by Jo Masters as 'po-faced' and Stevie Moss as 'grumpy'. Despite his taciturn nature, his team gradually discovered that behind the stony exterior, Manson is a quirky individual; Grace Dasari discovered he was a teenage raver in the late 80s while Stevie Moss discovered his fondness for magical tricks.

AllMusic reviewer Steve Huey noted that the album had a "twistedly affectionate send-up of goth rock conventions" and lyrics that "gleefully wallow in goth clichés — sex, death, Christianity, vampires, more sex, and death". The album has since sold nearly a million copies in the United States, a surprise success that "obliged Goths to take notice" of the group.Baddeley 2002, p. 270 The trademarks of Type O Negative's music include the use of "downtuned, fuzzy guitars" and a "deep baritone croon" from Peter Steele, an "intimidatingly large, sarcastically self-deprecating original, whose dry, dirty one-liners and morbid machismo challenge those who insist the archetypal Goth is a po-faced androgyne".Baddeley 2002, p. 269–70.

Menstrual Man received positive reviews. Writing in NOW, Canadian feminist author and activist Susan G. Cole noted the smart filmmaking behind the film, adding it "makes perfect sense by the end, when you've come to realize Muruganantham and the male educators he worked with are honorary feminists". John Lui from The Straits Times gave the film four-and-a-half stars, noting that the film avoids being "all po-faced liberal-guilt seriousness" with its use of vintage Bollywood clips and thanks to its charismatic protagonist. PBS POV columnist Tom Roston called the film his greatest discovery at the 2013 Hot Docs festival, describing the film as "an engaging, funny, heart-breaking story of the power of what one ordinary man can achieve".

I. (Annoyed Grunt)" (playing a colonel) and the second being the 2007 episode "24 Minutes" (playing his character Jack Bauer from the television series 24). As noted by Rick Porter of the website Zap2it, Sutherland's appearance in "The Falcon and the D'ohman" makes him "one of the relatively few Simpsons guest stars who've appeared more than once and voiced different characters rather than recurring residents of Springfield." Other guest stars to have done this are Albert Brooks, Jon Lovitz, and Phil Hartman, all of whom have played one-time characters and recurring parts. The character Wayne is partly based on Sutherland's 24 character Jack Bauer, who, according to Christopher Hooton of Metro, is also a "po-faced anti-terrorism agent constantly finding his loved ones kidnapped by megalomaniacs.

Tourist History received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 67, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Lou Thomas of BBC Music described the album as showing "sporadic flashes of greatness", comparing the album to the works of Editors, Foals, and The Futureheads, whilst Laura Silverman of The Times described the album as "an excited burst of short, simple indie pop songs driven by jangly guitars and punk rhythms". Dom Gourlay of Drowned in Sound described the album as "mixing Bloc Party's guile and wisdom with a pop sensibility not normally associated with modern-day guitar oriented bands" and as a "more accessible and less po-faced Antidotes".

" Edelstone says that Schlagenheim is "one of the best albums [he had] ever heard" and "a masterpiece". In a mixed review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis praises moments of technical virtuosity in which the band "lock into a groove that manages to be hypnotically repetitious while constantly shifting and changing" but also said of the band "at their least appealing, there’s no doubt that Black Midi can sound pretty pleased with themselves [...] it’s hard to avoid a sensation of po-faced seriousness, of music that exists largely in order to make its authors and fans feel superior". Petridis concludes "Schlagenheim is an imperfect, intriguing debut: behind the overheated prose lurks a young, self-conscious band who clearly aren’t as fully formed as the hype suggests [...] for all its flaws, Schlagenheim is promising enough to suggest that watching them develop could be fascinating.

The Stool Pigeon criticised the nostalgic quality of the NSRO's music commenting that "it's frequently a fine and lovely thing. But in some ways it can't help feeling like a retreat… Certainly there are moments of beauty, but ultimately it's like stepping back into an alternate, pre-war England where rock'n’roll – not to mention mass industrialisation and immigration – never happened. Which is fine for a night, but I wouldn't want to stay." Notorious underground music commentator Everett True was considerably more scornful in his Hugs And Kisses blog (reprinted in The Village Voice), castigating the band for "po-faced snobbery" and "baroque warbling" and comparing them unfavourably to their more post-rock inclined support act: “Crayola Lectern tick the same high musicality boxes as the band that followed, sure: but possess one crucial factor that the North Sea Radio Malarkey just don’t, just don’t get.

The self-dubbed "fabric four" primarily recorded in a film soundtrack style, and many of their tracks were instrumentals. On the release of their first album Dad Man Cat, Paul Moody wrote in the New Musical Express: "Whereas the rest of the Acid Jazz roster fidget around in a world of skinny ribbed roll-necks comparing sideburn growth, Corduroy manage to swagger through the same po-faced domain with a couldn't-care-less braggadocio... Corduroy have got their collective tongue stuck firmly in someone else's cheek here and it feels staggeringly good."Hunt, Chris: sleevenote to CD Something in My Eye – The Best of Corduroy, 2004. Releasing three albums on Eddie Piller's Acid Jazz Records, they received radio airplay for their single "Something in My Eye" in 1993, but national chart success evaded them, although several singles from their 1993 album High Havoc charted in the UK Independent Chart.

Flickering Myth gave the film two stars, stating that it "will probably prove to be quite popular with those into their British crime movies as it looks pretty good with some stunning wide shots of London in various different lights, and for Danny Dyer it’s something of a step up from his usual performance and will hopefully be seen as a defining moment for him, but otherwise Assassin is a little bit too underwhelming in the areas where it should have been stronger." Movie Talk panned Assassin, writing "Danny Dyer's hard man whizzes to and from his assignments on a high-powered motorbike, but this crashingly dull low-budget British crime thriller couldn't be more pedestrian." Charlie Lyne of The Guardian wrote, "Dyer doesn’t so much go through the motions in the role as plead with the audience to save him the bother and recall the motions from last time." Matt Glasby of Total Film rated it 3/5 and wrote that although it is not enough to rehabilitate Dyer's reputation, "anyone looking for po-faced, paunch-free action could do much worse".

Another factor considered was gender balance, particularly as the chair chosen is male. The vote on the proposal to include Dubs was lost 16–18 and there was a request during the meeting for it to voted on again after it was argued that Wilcox had vocally supported Starmer and Rosena Allin-Khan. In June, Labour's press office provided a statement prepared by party lawyersto journalists covering the story that defended the comments, describing criticism as "po-faced" and stating: "These were messages exchanged between co-workers in the expectation that they would remain private and confidential and the tone of the language used reflects that." In response, 13 NEC members (one third of the NEC), including representatives from four trade unions (Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, Fire Brigades Union, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Unite the Union) wrote to Keir Starmer, accusing his office of misleading them about how the party dealt with leaked WhatsApp messages by senior officials detailed in the report and accusing party officials of defending "racist, sexist and abusive" messages about colleagues, and "also directly prejudged the specific issues that Martin Forde's inquiry is considering ... and thereby undermines its independence".

I don't think art needs to be po-faced to be real. from Vice
It is certainly true that Becker can come across as laughably po-faced. from Economist
Perhaps it's time to drop the po-faced solemnity about our final frontier. from Wired
It is obvious that responding with such po-faced opprobrium is humorless in the extreme. from The New York Times
Some of the books we read were very po-faced, and not in the best way. from The New York Times
Those po-faced purveyors of fake news, claims the president, do not take him seriously as a comedian. from Economist
The po-faced top tens weren't interested in Rae Sremmurd's boundless joy and charged club thumpers, it seems. from Vice
There is, however, a difference between treating your chosen subject matter with seriousness and being flat-out po-faced. from Vice
The Guardian had no choice but to turn the whole thing into a po-faced reminder about global warming. from CNBC
And yet, this pair of po-faced techno titans have become embraced by even the cheekiest of the cheeky clubbers. from Vice
Adults could be harder work, especially those who saw religion as a po-faced Sunday duty, not to be taken lightly. from Economist
The Soulpepper "Spoon River" — directed by Albert Schultz with music by Mike Ross, who together adapted the book — avoids po-faced reverence. from The New York Times
The country was three years into the nationwide prohibition of alcohol which had been forced through by the po-faced campaigners of the temperance movement. from Vice
Nearly all of its vistas incorporate grey sand, dark skies, driving rain or thick fog, while most of its po-faced characters are dressed in black and khaki. from Economist
To bankers and traders keen to let rip, they are the po-faced types who frown at any transaction that might breach this rule or contravene that regulation. from Economist
The former maintains a po-faced seriousness even as it tumbles into high-concept lunacy, while the latter is a film about taking it easy that takes it easy. from Vox
The task you're set with is impossible: to make a po-faced epic out of a game where you punch people's heads off after freezing them with ice grenades. from Vice
In this brief excerpt, a rowdy student is lecturing the po-faced teacher on the importance of fun in education — a maxim that opera composers heed all too rarely. from The New York Times
It's lascivious and visceral and the fact it upset po-faced adults and this BBC reviewer alike is testament to how quickly people could forget the simple joys of being horny. from Vice
According to a po-faced bouncer at the door (no, not Sven), Skepta's flight into Berlin—presumably from Austria, where he'd played at Snowbombing festival the night before—had been delayed by an hour. from Vice
And obviously, you have to be a bit po-faced if you're wearing fluffy slippers and a huge feather hat — otherwise they're just going to laugh you out of the room because you look like Zoolander. from Refinery 29
It looks like a bunch of po-faced coaches in unconscionable windbreakers muttering into headsets while olympian physical specimens shrug and wait and a bunch of rich men seethe and pound scotch in their luxury boxes. from Vice
So often with games, everything feels like it has to be serious and po-faced, that every character has to have a backstory where their mother died in a horrible fire and their father drinks to forget. from Vice
When Hillary Clinton, running for president, unwisely referred to some Americans as "deplorables", some of her critics embraced that term as a badge of honour—an ironic stance meant to contrast with their supposedly po-faced adversaries. from Economist
A po-faced kid takes violent revenge on his rapist after getting abused during a hunting excursion, and Eisener works the sight of the deer (its lifeless black eyes, the mighty arch of its antlers) for all it's worth. from The Verge
Aside from the fact that it might cost them a lot of money (that $131 million would be $216 million today), they can no longer be so po-faced about the matter now that they screwed up as much as the Great Satan. from The Hill
The radically bright fields of color and disappearance of depth that characterize Gauguin's Polynesian paintings are already visible in his 1888 masterwork "Vision of the Sermon," whose po-faced, white-capped Bretonnes watch Jacob wrestle with the angel on a field of solid, blazing red. from The New York Times
But prestige dramas, especially those canonized flagship series that were credited with ushering in the so-called golden age of TV we may or may not still be enjoying, have been so predominantly masculine that the label is still habitually applied to a certain type of po-faced product regardless of whether there's any prestige to it or not. from Buzzfeed News
The department wrote that the rejection of the essay came out of concern that readers might not take kindly to a piece lauding Britain's food while rationing was still in place after World War II. "The organization in those days was somewhat po-faced and risk-averse," Mr. Donaldson said, using a phrase to describe a humorless stance. from The New York Times
Another charge is that all of this over the top feeling (He touched my arm … quiver … Angel of Jesus deliver me!) is too overblown to feel real and that Stevens is a po-faced peddler of emotion, a mechanical maker of melancholy, a simulator of the profound truths that run through our lives who has no sense of humour or irony about what he's doing. from Vice
For one thing, North American metal fans deserve a damn break after staring wistfully across the ocean towards the Wackens, Hellfests, or Nuclear War Nows of the world; for another, especially at this point in time, I am thrilled to not have to whip out my passport and explain myself (and my blasphemous sartorial decisions) to a phalanx of po-faced border guards on my way to heavy metal hell. from Vice
But to me, the scurrilousness has the pasty complexion of po-faced error.
"Paper Giants' recruitment of humour…is an important corrective to the cliché of humourless feminists and to po-faced and hubristic accounts of radical political movements".
'Interiors' was about Willem de Kooning, Richey had endless reference points. We've always had that desire to pass on. We're always seen as quite a negative, po-faced band, but we're not. It's just been about passing on our love of our inspiration.
Cameron argued that "the key to accepting a Luvvie is not to take yourself too seriously", and said that if she were presented with a Luvvie she would "welcome it with open arms – otherwise you might look a bit po-faced and silly".
All of these were set in the real world of the present day, but involved fantastical and horrific threats to the central characters, and possessed a wit and self-awareness that had perhaps been lacking in some of their more po-faced science-fiction predecessors, not to mention much lower costs to produce.
According to DJ Dave Seaman, the sound faced a backlash in the early 1990s because "it had gone the same way as progressive rock before it. Pompous, po-faced and full of its own self importance. But basically was really quite boring." The label progressive house was often used interchangeably with trance in the early years.
We [the characters in the film] don't know who to support. Sometimes, Kirk, he seems to be acting in exactly the same way as him [Harrison]. They're both motivated by revenge. And the Into Darkness in the title is less an idea of this new trend of po- faced, kind of, everything's-got-to-be-a-bit-dour treatments of essentially childish stories.
The first half dances between feverish house, dazed electronica, rave, techno and dub, the second comprises ambient and slightly po-faced pieces built from piano figures and synth washes. The overriding impression of both modes is nostalgia, not least for the uplifting, utopian properties of dance music." Ryan Middleton of Magnetic Magazine added, "Moby finds himself surging around his various influences on this album.
Baker's life partner, Ron Robertson, believes that this difficulty led Baker on a quick, downwards emotional spiral. Baker killed himself at his home on November 5, 1997, by asphyxiation in his garage. His death was noted in literary circles and mainstream press; the Gay Times in the United Kingdom wrote, "Baker's suicide is particularly tragic because it robs American gay writing of a refreshingly distinctive voice quite unlike the po-faced prose of so many of his contemporaries."Wagner, Erica.
The band's penchant for addressing political and social issues, as well as their staid depiction in Corbijn's black-and-white sleeve photographs, contributed to the group's earnest and serious image as "stone-faced pilgrim[s]". This image became a target for derision after the band's critically maligned Rattle and Hum project in 1988. Various critics called them "po-faced", "pompous bores", and "humourless". The group's continued exploration of American music for the project was labelled "pretentious" and "misguided and bombastic".
Despite being particularly proud of his working class status, Terry is notably workshy, informing Bob in one episode that he has 'dropped out of the rat race'. Terry often uses his previous Army service (in "the hot tropic night") to avoid working, because of his "dodgy spine", "Burmese malaria", and other mysterious ailments (including a never explained leg injury). Terry is down to earth, quick witted, po faced and cynical. He aggressively dislikes being referred to as 'thin' or 'slim', preferring instead to describe himself as 'wiry'.
"Christmas Tree" received mixed reviews from critics. Alex Rawls of OffBeat gave a positive review as part of the "25 Days of Free" offer from Amazon.com. Joking that the artists of the more religious songs must be "praying" for Lady Gaga, Rawls described the song as "not so po-faced" as the five songs released before it was made available on December 6, 2009. Estrella Adeyeri, the music editor of Nouse, gave the song a positive review, complimenting its "synth beats and numerous yuletide innuendos".
In all the Culture stories, Banks subverts many clichés of space opera. The Minds are not plotting to take over the universe, and no-one is following a grand plan. The darkly comic double-act of Ferbin and Holse in Matter is not something most writers would place in "the normally po-faced context of space opera". Even the names of Culture spaceships are jokes – for example Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill, Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall (part of a running gag in the series Originally published in The Guardian, 2000) and Liveware Problem (see liveware).
Peel also argues that of all Gerry Anderson's series, it is Stingray in which his preferred "tongue-in-cheek" style of humour is most prominent. Mike Fillis of TV Zone magazine regards Stingray as less "ambitious" than Thunderbirds but compares its "self-awareness" favourably to the "po-faced rigidity" of Captain Scarlet. He also praises its "well-drawn" characters and describes the water-based special effects as "surprisingly elegant". Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping, authors of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, view the effects as more "realistic" than those of earlier Anderson series.
Boyle convinced Welsh to let them option the rights to his book by writing him a letter stating that Hodge and Macdonald were "the two most important Scotsmen since Kenny Dalglish and Alex Ferguson". Welsh remembered that originally the people wanting to option his book "wanted to make a po-faced piece of social realism like Christiane F or The Basketball Diaries". He was impressed that Boyle, Hodge and Macdonald wanted everyone to see the film and "not just the arthouse audience". In October 1994, Hodge, Boyle and Macdonald spent a lot of time discussing which chapters of the book would and would not translate into film.
This is a book more about the vulva itself than simply the vagina – labia and clitoris get their fair share of attention – but Rees acknowledges the sensationalist desire to talk simply about the part that gets penetrated and the way this obscures women's sexual desire. Would The Vulva Monologues have garnered quite that much attention?" She concluded her review by writing, "Rees lacks Wolf's sometimes po-faced anger, instead mixing her feminist outrage with a healthy dose of humour. Ever the cunning linguist, she leaves no pun unmade, but doesn’t skimp on the theory either, the perfect antidote for those feminists who find too much of the terminology dry and academic.
Manson agreed, and took a three-month sabbatical with Jake in Spain. Returning, he confided in DC Stevie Moss that he was "less than successful" with Jake. While initially filled with a burning ambition and disregard for victims of crime, the personal crises Manson experienced while at Sun Hill noticeably mellowed him out, although he remained close-lipped and emotionally repressed; described by Jo Masters as 'po-faced' and Stevie Moss as 'grumpy'. Despite his taciturn nature, his team gradually discovered that behind the stony exterior, Manson is a quirky individual; Grace Dasari discovered he was a teenage raver in the late 80s while Stevie Moss discovered his fondness for magical tricks.
AllMusic reviewer Steve Huey noted that the album had a "twistedly affectionate send-up of goth rock conventions" and lyrics that "gleefully wallow in goth clichés — sex, death, Christianity, vampires, more sex, and death". The album has since sold nearly a million copies in the United States, a surprise success that "obliged Goths to take notice" of the group.Baddeley 2002, p. 270 The trademarks of Type O Negative's music include the use of "downtuned, fuzzy guitars" and a "deep baritone croon" from Peter Steele, an "intimidatingly large, sarcastically self-deprecating original, whose dry, dirty one-liners and morbid machismo challenge those who insist the archetypal Goth is a po-faced androgyne".Baddeley 2002, p. 269–70.
Menstrual Man received positive reviews. Writing in NOW, Canadian feminist author and activist Susan G. Cole noted the smart filmmaking behind the film, adding it "makes perfect sense by the end, when you've come to realize Muruganantham and the male educators he worked with are honorary feminists". John Lui from The Straits Times gave the film four-and-a-half stars, noting that the film avoids being "all po-faced liberal-guilt seriousness" with its use of vintage Bollywood clips and thanks to its charismatic protagonist. PBS POV columnist Tom Roston called the film his greatest discovery at the 2013 Hot Docs festival, describing the film as "an engaging, funny, heart-breaking story of the power of what one ordinary man can achieve".
I. (Annoyed Grunt)" (playing a colonel) and the second being the 2007 episode "24 Minutes" (playing his character Jack Bauer from the television series 24). As noted by Rick Porter of the website Zap2it, Sutherland's appearance in "The Falcon and the D'ohman" makes him "one of the relatively few Simpsons guest stars who've appeared more than once and voiced different characters rather than recurring residents of Springfield." Other guest stars to have done this are Albert Brooks, Jon Lovitz, and Phil Hartman, all of whom have played one-time characters and recurring parts. The character Wayne is partly based on Sutherland's 24 character Jack Bauer, who, according to Christopher Hooton of Metro, is also a "po-faced anti-terrorism agent constantly finding his loved ones kidnapped by megalomaniacs.
Tourist History received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 67, based on 12 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Lou Thomas of BBC Music described the album as showing "sporadic flashes of greatness", comparing the album to the works of Editors, Foals, and The Futureheads, whilst Laura Silverman of The Times described the album as "an excited burst of short, simple indie pop songs driven by jangly guitars and punk rhythms". Dom Gourlay of Drowned in Sound described the album as "mixing Bloc Party's guile and wisdom with a pop sensibility not normally associated with modern-day guitar oriented bands" and as a "more accessible and less po-faced Antidotes".
" Edelstone says that Schlagenheim is "one of the best albums [he had] ever heard" and "a masterpiece". In a mixed review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis praises moments of technical virtuosity in which the band "lock into a groove that manages to be hypnotically repetitious while constantly shifting and changing" but also said of the band "at their least appealing, there’s no doubt that Black Midi can sound pretty pleased with themselves [...] it’s hard to avoid a sensation of po-faced seriousness, of music that exists largely in order to make its authors and fans feel superior". Petridis concludes "Schlagenheim is an imperfect, intriguing debut: behind the overheated prose lurks a young, self-conscious band who clearly aren’t as fully formed as the hype suggests [...] for all its flaws, Schlagenheim is promising enough to suggest that watching them develop could be fascinating.
The Stool Pigeon criticised the nostalgic quality of the NSRO's music commenting that "it's frequently a fine and lovely thing. But in some ways it can't help feeling like a retreat… Certainly there are moments of beauty, but ultimately it's like stepping back into an alternate, pre-war England where rock'n’roll – not to mention mass industrialisation and immigration – never happened. Which is fine for a night, but I wouldn't want to stay." Notorious underground music commentator Everett True was considerably more scornful in his Hugs And Kisses blog (reprinted in The Village Voice), castigating the band for "po-faced snobbery" and "baroque warbling" and comparing them unfavourably to their more post-rock inclined support act: “Crayola Lectern tick the same high musicality boxes as the band that followed, sure: but possess one crucial factor that the North Sea Radio Malarkey just don’t, just don’t get.
The self-dubbed "fabric four" primarily recorded in a film soundtrack style, and many of their tracks were instrumentals. On the release of their first album Dad Man Cat, Paul Moody wrote in the New Musical Express: "Whereas the rest of the Acid Jazz roster fidget around in a world of skinny ribbed roll-necks comparing sideburn growth, Corduroy manage to swagger through the same po-faced domain with a couldn't-care-less braggadocio... Corduroy have got their collective tongue stuck firmly in someone else's cheek here and it feels staggeringly good."Hunt, Chris: sleevenote to CD Something in My Eye – The Best of Corduroy, 2004. Releasing three albums on Eddie Piller's Acid Jazz Records, they received radio airplay for their single "Something in My Eye" in 1993, but national chart success evaded them, although several singles from their 1993 album High Havoc charted in the UK Independent Chart.
Flickering Myth gave the film two stars, stating that it "will probably prove to be quite popular with those into their British crime movies as it looks pretty good with some stunning wide shots of London in various different lights, and for Danny Dyer it’s something of a step up from his usual performance and will hopefully be seen as a defining moment for him, but otherwise Assassin is a little bit too underwhelming in the areas where it should have been stronger." Movie Talk panned Assassin, writing "Danny Dyer's hard man whizzes to and from his assignments on a high-powered motorbike, but this crashingly dull low-budget British crime thriller couldn't be more pedestrian." Charlie Lyne of The Guardian wrote, "Dyer doesn’t so much go through the motions in the role as plead with the audience to save him the bother and recall the motions from last time." Matt Glasby of Total Film rated it 3/5 and wrote that although it is not enough to rehabilitate Dyer's reputation, "anyone looking for po-faced, paunch-free action could do much worse".
Another factor considered was gender balance, particularly as the chair chosen is male. The vote on the proposal to include Dubs was lost 16–18 and there was a request during the meeting for it to voted on again after it was argued that Wilcox had vocally supported Starmer and Rosena Allin-Khan. In June, Labour's press office provided a statement prepared by party lawyersto journalists covering the story that defended the comments, describing criticism as "po-faced" and stating: "These were messages exchanged between co-workers in the expectation that they would remain private and confidential and the tone of the language used reflects that." In response, 13 NEC members (one third of the NEC), including representatives from four trade unions (Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, Fire Brigades Union, Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Unite the Union) wrote to Keir Starmer, accusing his office of misleading them about how the party dealt with leaked WhatsApp messages by senior officials detailed in the report and accusing party officials of defending "racist, sexist and abusive" messages about colleagues, and "also directly prejudged the specific issues that Martin Forde's inquiry is considering ... and thereby undermines its independence".