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"straight face" Definitions
  1. a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.

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Try to keep a straight face, try to keep a straight face.
Best of luck trying to keep a straight face. 8.
Kris Jenner tried answering our questions with a straight face.
Somehow the latter reveal is delivered with a straight face.
All the while I struggled to keep a straight face.
Try calling that a democracy while keeping a straight face.
"Good catch," he said, struggling to keep a straight face.
"You can't make this with a straight face," Troemel said.
I want her to have more of a straight face.
Who had the hardest time keeping a straight face while filming?
"I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face," he said.
It was very hard for me to keep a straight face.
How can Cheney say any of this with a straight face?
I don&apost know how they pull off the straight face.
Was it difficult to keep a straight face around Colin Farrell?
He relates all this, of course, with a totally straight face.
"I can't even keep a straight face," Curry said last week.
Extremely hard trying to keep a straight face in these scenes.
It's really fun, and it's hard to keep a straight face.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe couldn't even keep a straight face.
I was maintaining a straight face, trying to get through it.
"I was in a meme and I had a straight face."
Today that is hard for liberals to do with a straight face.
"He was the one who cannot keep a straight face," Cranston continued.
They're a bit difficult to eat with a straight face, but sure.
"You gonna answer that?" he said while Crenshaw kept a straight face.
Imagine the news having to read that out with a straight face.
How could anyone say that with a straight face and believe it.
Calderon kept a straight face as he walked back to the bench.
"Moral" is not a word Netanyahu can utter with a straight face.
"Dang near broke my jaw keeping a straight face," the staffer said.
" His aim was to write about "the fantastic with a straight face.
With a straight face, attendees said, the operative took the suggestion under advisement.
" Blake E., with an entirely straight face: "I have no whaboom in me.
Only a couple of people would write that with a straight face anymore.
The crew couldn't keep a straight face because his reaction was so funny.
It sounded ridiculous, but there they were, telling me with a straight face.
Can you say that with a straight face after the last eight years?
How can one with a straight face claim the Falcons deserved another possession?
I'm not sure we can claim that distinction with a straight face today.
"Extremely hard trying to keep a straight face in these scenes," he added.
It sounds farfetched, I know, but I'm sayin' this with a straight face.
I could never keep a straight face long enough to write him back.
Can anyone with a straight face argue that this would help the economy?
With a straight face, she gives them space to do their quixotic thing.
Then, he abruptly switches to deep belly laughs, before resuming a straight face.
Trump made his plea at a 2016 press conference, with a straight face.
Can we say with a straight face that abortion is a great evil that cannot be tolerated and, with the same straight face, say that the bent and broken character of our nation's leader doesn't really matter in the end?
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed Johnson's appointment with a completely straight face.
Hey, you try saying, "Can a bitch get a donut?" with a straight face.
Barbie gives it her best shot—even if she can't keep a straight face.
It&aposs hard to keep a straight face when you hear stuff like that.
This is an administration that said the words "alternative facts" with a straight face.
The actress revealed she had a hard time keeping a straight face while shooting.
How Hannah Storm kept a straight face through all that, I have no idea!
Clinton slowly pushes her jaw back up so she can keep a straight face.
Like Buster Keaton, Burckhardt wants to joke about a disaster with a straight face.
"You taught me how to fuck," Dornan manages to say with a straight face.
Only in D.C. can someone present this sort of math with a straight face.
After all, it's pretty hard work to pass these laws with a straight face.
How could anyone consider either of these two a "standout" with a straight face?
No economist today says with a straight face that tax cuts pay for themselves.
I have no idea how NBC's Kasie Hunt kept a straight face: http://bit.
Good luck to anyone who can listen to this exchange with a straight face.
Informed of the appointment, the State Department's spokesman struggled to keep a straight face.
The straight face he maintained in posed portraits comes across in his prose, too.
Try saying the name of this technique to your relatives with a straight face.
Does the DCCC have a straight-face list of how they get to 22019?
Just try to keep a straight face while watching this. JUST. TRY. http://bit.
Can it, with a straight face, still claim to reflect a form of "radical" criticality?
It became impossible to say, with a straight face, that Nunes was a credible investigator.
He tries to remain cool, but can't keep a straight face after the adorable interruption.
Anna Kendrick can't keep a straight face in this adorable mock interview if she tried.
The Obamas are such phonies, it's hard to confront their lies with a straight face.
And we wouldn't have been able to keep a straight face for this one, either.
Steinmeier, who kept a straight face, made clear: "A further delay isn't in anyone's interests".
And you know, part of that was just the inability to keep a straight face.
One senior academic told me, with a straight face, that Foucault was completely irrelevant here.
How do you with a straight face ban Kaepernick then make money off of him?
So don't tell me with a straight face that the financial services industry is suffering.
Really, in a sense that ... Very few people can say that with a straight face.
"Did you know about this?" she questions Kourt, who cannot keep a straight face at all!
Check out John Legend's Capri Sun video, and his ability to keep a straight face, below:
He does go on about the fantasy in remarkable detail though, with an impressively straight face.
"I give him more kisses than his wife," Puig said, trying to keep a straight face.
With a straight face, Mr. Tao said: "a Bruckner motet for piano and tap dance." video
When the Hulk was speaking with Ant-Man, Paul Rudd had to keep a straight face.
"It's not just the black people who get brutalized," he tells Diane with a straight face.
But they can't keep a straight face, as their real-life conflict keeps infecting their fantasy.
Even better, the solution is one where almost everyone can claim victory with a straight face.
Tone, of course, is everything, and Lowery mostly does this ghost bit with a completely straight face.
I try hard to keep a straight face and not think about how strange this all is.
Although Chip manages to keep a straight face, there's no denying the two enjoy teasing one another.
Jughead asks Betty to be his "Serpent Queen" with a straight face, while in bed with her?
If anyone is reading this in the Gulf, the safe bet is to keep a straight face.
"I'm watching all these news reports saying 'hoverboard' with a straight face — and it's not," he said.
The minister argued with a straight face that not a cent of taxpayers' money had been misspent.
No company's main source of profit can be described with a straight face as a negative externality.
Could anyone now argue with a straight face that Justice Ginsburg's only guide would be the law?
" God keeps a straight face, but wonders, "what was the plan his sons were referring to exactly?
Tell me with a straight face how a commercial entity is going to make money operating ISS?
He had a deadpan delivery, and both medical reports and jokes were delivered with a straight face.
They are merely expressions of the "free speech" of enthusiastic supporters, he insists with an admirably straight face.
Turning to Her Majesty while trying to keep a straight face, I solemnly told her it was dead.
With a straight face, Mr Chinamasa told the BBC that paying exporters in funny money would incentivise them.
I have a Houston friend who maintains, with a straight face, that it always cools off at night.
There is not a single mainstream editor or TV producer who could say that with a straight face.
"Whatever happens, keep a straight face," Jackson said, recalling the words of an early pitching coach, Marty Reed.
"I'd be surprised if the E.P.A administrator could defend this letter and keep a straight face," he said.
Fifteen years ago, I walked into Charles D'Ambrosio's classroom, and — how to say this with a straight face?
With its various products, Raygun brings levity to the straight face of politics, social causes and Iowa stereotypes.
I tried my best to keep a straight face while he figured out that I could see him.
Meanwhile, WWE superstar Cena – rocking a blowout and a power suit – couldn't keep a straight face throughout the spoof.
"It's not something you can cite in a presidential speech with a straight face," says Yale economist Kenneth Gillingham.
Even Ferrell struggled to maintain a straight face as he took a call on the world's tiniest cell phone.
Grant and his co-believers could apparently use phrases such as "our superior germ-plasm" with a straight face.
Because it's not a mockumentary, American Vandal keeps a straight face while investigating the hilarious crime at its center.
In a recent partnership, Legend enlisted one of his lesser-known talents – his ability to keep a straight face.
Booth even posed for a photo with his former adversaries, keeping a straight face while the other men beamed.
I just don&apost know how anyone goes on TV with a straight face making some of the arguments.
Somehow, both of them kept a straight face through all of this—even as the other diners enthusiastically applauded.
I laughed very hard during the "one, two" clip—go ahead and listen to that with a straight face.
In one instance, Lawrence couldn't keep a straight face as Laurence Fishburne's character, Gus Mancuso, discussed the planet Uranus.
Was it hard to keep a straight face with a line like "I look down on people with love"?
For his part, Mr. Trump has repeatedly asserted with a straight face that the tax bill would hurt him.
"I'm in awe of how you say what you say with a straight face," she told the Russian ambassador.
"I think he looks damn good, considering he's 2,000 years old," he said, straining to keep a straight face.
All these situations are heightened and ostensibly comedic, but Dev's sentimental education is portrayed with an utterly straight face.
It involves her pulling out scissors, cutting grass from their display and chomping on it with a straight face.
Given these problems, it's actually difficult to argue with a straight face that the deal improves our national security.
"Hey, you've got to make the throw, no excuses," Manning would say with a shrug and a straight face.
"'Cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do / I can't even say it with a straight face," sings Swift, laughing.  
Foster and fellow Broadway veteran Christian Borle deserve all the awards for keeping a straight face through this whole ordeal.
As long as he's healthy, it's hard to argue with a straight face that they won't improve significantly next season.
Jimmy Kimmel had a simple challenge for Hillary Clinton on Monday: Read Donald Trump quotes while keeping a straight face.
Poor Annaliese dissolves into tears, and Arie does a good job of keeping a straight face while he comforts her.
It is hard not to burst out laughing at the absurdity, yet she delivers it with an impeccable straight face.
When Spicer, with a straight face, claimed Trump prioritized women's empowerment during the campaign, why didn't a reporter confront him?
The military (INAUDIBLE) a straight face, look, you know, these are enemies, so we&aposre taking them for a reason.
" She added, "Not many of us could wake up and do what @KatrinaPierson does every day with a straight face.
But it's worth watching just for the pair to try and keep a straight face during their fictional train ride.
"The timing just doesn't pass the straight-face test in terms of what's the real motivation for this," he added.
So I've gotta pitch it in a way that legitimizes it and I've gotta do it with a straight face!
With a totally straight face, Mitch convinces Matt to "lift [the corpse's] fucking scrotum" and check his taint for marks.
The fact that publications like People and Us Weekly are covering it with a straight face adds another absurd layer.
It's tough to argue with a straight face that this bizarre system is inherently better than just a simple vote.
The exact phrase was also uttered by Naomi Osaka, although she struggled to keep a straight face during her delivery.
BBC dad handles the interruption like a champ, somehow managing to keep a (mostly) straight face throughout the whole thing.
To work with her and try to keep a straight face was not the challenge I thought I'd be having.
To work with her and try to keep a straight face was not the challenge I thought I'd be having.
Manning would keep a straight face for the next few minutes before letting his new teammate in on the ruse.
His answers were submitted in writing; Mr Najib might have struggled to say such things in person with a straight face.
It is how a section of us gets to say with a straight face, "I'm not racist" and truly believe it.
FEW men can roll a condom onto a plastic penis with a straight face, and Ali and Ahmadzai are no exceptions.
Corporate has always had a flair for the visual comedy that arises from presenting completely absurd situations with a straight face.
"When I started researching my book, colleges maintained with a straight face that it was an even playing field," Golden says.
"And is it cheaper or more expensive?" he asked with a straight face — then he cracked a grin and laughed uproariously.
It's people who describe themselves as 'rock'n'roll' with a straight face that are, ironically, the least likely to die for anything.
Last night, Jimmy Kimmel challenged Hillary Clinton to read Donald Trump quotes out of a wigged bowl with a straight face.
She went with "Al-ugh-ories," presumably because she finds it difficult to utter the word allegory with a straight face.
Any man who can say, "I got peanut butter on my penis" with a straight face is a man worth saving.
McConnell, one of the most inscrutable political operators in Washington, did what he always does -- he put on a straight face.
This viral video might be the best lesson in "how to keep a straight face" in the most hilarious situation ever.
A Moroccan boy recently told me with a straight face that he was programming AI which can detect tumors from data.
Putting on a straight face even while he was telling us that he was crooked, and where he got the idea.
But this has been a near-zero policy election, so it's super hard to make that case with a straight face.
What's the distance between an outsized boast delivered sincerely and an imagined excessive boast delivered comically, but with a straight face?
As you might imagine, he keeps a straight face in "Killings," but his lighter side is evident in these pages too.
But I wish I could say, with a straight face, that I actually heard Robinson's name while still in the womb.
It's difficult to argue with a straight face that American action can fully resolve those problems, especially in the near term.
How on earth could any lawyer, with a straight face, say we should pay money to the guy who had the machete?
Since the collapse of The DAO, no one in crypto should be allowed to say "code is law" with a straight face.
Please enjoy watching her try to keep a straight face while battling up against some of the hottest wings known to humankind.
When you talked about civility, could you sit there with a straight face in terms of ... Peter Kafka: She's doing it now.
"'Cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do / I can't even say it with a straight face," Swift sings with a cackle.
"I don't like Cruz, but I can defend most of his positions with a straight face," one prominent Republican leader told me.
Seriously, look at those underworld conduit "doorways" and tell me with a straight face Freud wouldn't have something to say about them.
Olivia Rox, Katy Perry's "Unconditionally" Only a 17-year-old could claim ownership of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" with a straight face.
"Yeah, I'll probably cut down on the gym sessions and save the energy in my legs," he said with a straight face.
I would really like someone (preferably with a straight face) to explain what these people do that makes them worth their compensation.
Working with Trump, Ryan could no longer say with a straight face that his policies were seeking to achieve broader social goals.
They kept a straight face and hand-carved an ice sphere for his drink, just like they would for any other cocktail.
And we are expected to listen, with a straight face, when candidates proclaim that government itself should be run like a business.
To argue with a straight face to voters that insurance as we know it is mostly working seems like a risky strategy.
But it seemed like even Mr. Foley then had a hard time keeping a straight face while introducing the show minutes later.
He said this, and other objectively inaccurate statements about the U.S. territory, with a straight face while sitting next to Puerto Rico Gov.
But when she appeared with host Louis C.K. in this sketch from the April 8 episode, neither one could keep a straight face.
Although Chip manages to keep a straight face, there's no denying his thrill that the tween is following in his silly footsteps. 2.
Please imagine trying not to laugh on set while Nicole Richie says that with a straight face and then beams over the ridiculousness.
The fact that he can hardly keep a straight face during these are giving us reason to believe these ad-libs aren't authentic.
Just as importantly, Trump's cherry-picking strategy is so transparently cynical only he and his surrogates could relay it with a straight face.
Yet, no one can argue with a straight face that our broken immigration system and southern border benefit the American worker or taxpayer.
"There were moments we had to walk out of the room it was really really hard to keep a straight face," Pieters said.
We marvel at people in this industry who can string many of these words together in the same sentence (with a straight face).
To avoid preconceived assumptions of the word, Clark and Phillips have decided to tell the story of the vulgar with a straight face.
Even in the internet age, Gawker, seemingly with a straight face, declared Le Train Bleu the best restaurant in the city in 2014.
Pelosi said, with a straight face, that the impending impeachment of President Trump, which she has ordered and directed, was not about politics.
The key now is not to become complacent in the face of an administration using terms like "alternative facts" with a straight face.
Ensconced in armchairs, struggling to keep a straight face, they look a little like children in church — and in a way, they are.
It's hard to imagine any of those claims being made with a straight face about poverty in New Jersey, and very few were.
"There is a mental health epidemic here, which is being confused for a gun problem," Cohen said on Fox News with a straight face.
I find it almost comical to see Bharara put on a straight face and present the outcome of strong-arm bullying as "voluntary" confession.
"He is going there to set the record straight, face-to-face," she said, adding she didn't the two countries' relationship would be damaged.
Imagine being a man so sure of his own talents, his own abilities, that you can call a release Invincible with a straight face.
In sharing their first look at Doom Eternal, Stratton and Martin actually used the phrase "destructible demons" while hanging on to a straight face.
Straight face: Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney was asked about the double-count today during a press briefing, and didn't directly address the issue.
If everyone keeps a straight face, work goes on, but work comes to a halt as soon as there's a crack in that facade.
" Then he stops dancing, he turns to us and with a completely straight face he says, "I am here to unify the Democratic Party.
She dissolved into tears, holding up the date for everyone as Luyendyk Jr. did his best to comfort her (and keep a straight face).
The 21-second clip shows an adorable and particularly fashionable boy hopping up and down in a bounce house with a completely straight face.
Congress The most obvious resolution for Congress could be hard for many to actually proclaim with a straight face: Stop the hypocrisy over investigations.
But mostly, you hear dirty talk delivered with a mostly-but-not-totally straight face, slipped atop digital pulses aimed straight at the body.
Similarly, recounting even Cooper's most wild conspiracy theories with a straight face is by no means any guarantee that the reader will reject them.
The German leader, who worked closely with Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic President Barack Obama during her tenure, kept a straight face.
A lugubrious Thomas Hardy shows Forster the ivy-clad gravestones of his pets — Snowbell, Pella, Kitkin — as Forster tries to keep a straight face.
In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Ryan said his wife told him it would be tough for him to keep a straight face.
Frugal Family It is hard to recommend taking a 211-hour flight with a toddler to get a root canal with a straight face.
Katherine, the oldest Lieberson, keeps a straight face too, leaving the theatrics to her frontwoman sis, as she keeps them steady with her snare.
Each premise is explored with such a straight face that by the end of each show you're disgusted with humanity and terrified for our future.
Thus can someone who says "our country will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites" say this isn't racism with a straight face.
Even with two Oscars, Tom Hanks couldn't get through the 2009 CES Sony presentation he was contractually obligated to do with a straight face pic.twitter.
Even Arie could barely keep a straight face as he tried to explain the whole "kissing bandit" thing was really just promotional material for ABC.
Earlier this month, she managed to keep a straight face while imitating her favorite singers on Saturday Night Live, even as the audience cracked up.
The "Bourne's dad was maybe evil?!" plot feels so perfunctory that it's a surprise any of the actors can play it with a straight face.
And if your day goes to shit, well, remember that it's possible to keep a straight face while the world around you is falling apart.
Through no direct fault of their own, Klock and Dettmann are the handsome, and more importantly straight face of the Berghain and Ostgut Ton operation.
Although it's sometimes hard to keep a straight face saying such lovey-dovey things, there's no one I would rather say them to than Jim.
She's an authentic voice who can keep a straight face like no other -- even if those around her find it hard to do the same.
" Millie stops laughing and, with a perfectly straight face, she says, "I'm sorry, Annie, but I've got to hit you with one of these rolls.
Harwood: Are you seriously saying with a straight face that getting rid of the estate tax is about farmers and not about very wealthy families?
In the first, Timothy Lee contends that opponents "cannot with a straight face" argue that we don't need wide-sweeping changes to our patent system.
In these moments, he would speak with a straight face and in an even tone; I would nod as if I grasped what he meant.
It is beyond ridiculous for Trump to claim with a straight face that every "individual statement" he made about the virus was (or is) true.
"This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period — both in person and around the world," he declared with a semi-straight face.
But always fun watching a cop or anyone who asks for my ID in the U.S. trying to keep a straight face reading the name.
Some professionals who do business with Spring Valley say that, entertaining politics notwithstanding, they must strive to keep a straight face — and their heads down.
It's hard to keep a straight face when we run into some of these people, who have no idea that they've reached out to us.
Modi, a stubby man with a moustache and thin hair, is seen responding with a straight face in a video posted on Twitter by the Telegraph.
She plays every single scene to the limit, finding truth in the hackneyed dramatic beats and keeping a straight face when Jamie Dornan tries to emote.
How did you manage to take the promo photos for this album, where you're all shirtless and holding balls of colored flame, with a straight face?
He frequently deploys his one-liners with such a straight face, with such characteristic crustiness, that it takes a while for his audience to catch on.
Who with a straight face can argue that towns should continue spending their overstretched local resources on enforcement that does nothing to keep our streets safe?
How could you do that and still with a straight face show a delighted woman opening her Jane Seymour Open Hearts necklace on TV during halftime?
I found it difficult to keep a straight face as I spoke to the journalist sent by China Central Television, or CCTV, the state television network.
As the "Bodak Yellow" singer explained her name, Fallon tried and failed to keep a straight face as the Bronx native spoke with her trademark "zing" sounds.
Even the mighty Kate McKinnon can't keep a straight face when the ladybot — played by this week's guest, Emily Blunt — goes in for a quesadilla close-up.
"Nobody could be with Tim and keep a straight face once he got on a roll," Burnett said in a 19333 interview with the Television Academy Foundation.
Well, there is no way you can argue with a straight face that the tax reform bill doesn't put more money in the hands of working Americans.
Please note the cameo from Elizabeth Banks and a wig cut into a bob and please also note Academy Award-winner J.K. Simmons keeping a straight face.
As for anyone expressing surprise that the movie has triggered controversy about its potential impact, to that reaction, at least, it's hard to keep a straight face.
"The marine environment is incredibly important to us and we are using this experience to further improve our operations," Carnival Cruises said, presumably with a straight face.
In Thompson's defense, it's tough to keep a straight face when Dave Chappelle and Kate McKinnon are sitting a few feet away, drunkenly smashing their tongues together.
Trump himself is hardly reckoned with in The Fourth Way, which is the only way that Hewitt can push most of his ideas with a straight face.
There seems to be a lot of improvisation in the film, as when Zamata has to keep a straight face while Renée acts like she's Cindy Crawford.
The very fact that opposition-aligned groups are able to argue with a straight face in favor of being funded by unfriendly foreign governments proves the point.
The first he calls "Uber's children" — presumably with a straight face — who, he says, have been trained by smartphone apps to expect quality services delivered instantly i.e.
"Yes, it may appeal to a small niche, but I think it's worth doing regardless of its consumer potential," Mr. Sarkozy said — also with a straight face.
His claim that "my rhetoric brings people together," which he absurdly mustered with a straight face, betrays his pathological aversion to taking responsibility for his own acts.
Jim Halpert has his fair share of serious scenes in The Office, but it wasn't always easy for John Krasinski to keep a straight face while filming.
" — JIMMY FALLON "They're looking for someone who's cool under pressure, well-briefed on policy and can keep a straight face when saying, 'Yes, the gentleman from Infowars.
"I have sinus issues," he'd often claim with a straight face, as he fit the toothpaste cap to his nostril and threw back his head once again.
Firms like Blackstone will, with a straight face, argue that they are making American companies more efficient and that we are all better off as a result.
It's how sympathetic Western intellectuals like Christopher Caldwell can visit Budapest and still write that "[Orbán's] power had been won in free elections" with a straight face.
On that note, many also wondered whether it's even possible to say "Y'all smoke to enjoy it; I smoke to die" with a straight face in 2019.
Well worth the price of an op-ed arguing with a straight face that high drug prices that often result in ordinary people dying are socially valuable.
" Lemon, who struggled to keep a straight face through the introduction, added, "I think that is the longest introduction for someone who does not have a book.
"Workers love the flexibility and additional income they can generate through the platform," says Staff Finder in the press release announcing the investment, presumably with a straight face.
The theater was then amplified when the pair squared up for a nose-to-nose boxing-style publicity photo, although Mickelson did struggle to keep a straight face.
Taking advantage of her true status as a fashion icon, VB explained her straight face in one of the best ways she knows how — on a t-shirt.
There are two requirements for participants: They need to be willing to take their pants off in the subway, and to keep a straight face in the aftermath.
"Really at the end of the day this comes down to consumers of content also bearing responsibility for the content they consume," Coler says, with a straight face.
Ricciardo injected some Australian humor into the build-up when he jokingly told Sky Sports television, while struggling to keep a straight face, that Baku had changed everything.
And it&aposs amazing to me that Clapper continues to go on national TV and shamelessly with a straight face denies what we already know to be true.
The rubric to your article on facial technology ("Keeping a straight face", September 250th) stated that advances in artificial intelligence can be "used to spot signs of sexuality".
I assured him that it was just a game and had no way of accessing the phone line, almost but not quite managing to keep a straight face.
Critics may not like the particulars, but nobody should argue with a straight face that the status quo is acceptable and reform per se is a bad idea.
Anyone who can deliver the line "where in the Bible does it say 'Thou Shalt Not Wrestle'" with a straight face is a great actress in my book.
With Louise, a nurse in a Florence Nightingale cloak and micro-miniskirt (Trish Van Devere, barely keeping a straight face), Gordon finds an instant, if painfully frustrated, rapport.
"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy," Mr. Trump maintained with a straight face, speaking in Washington to a crowd of friendly military veterans.
The man being interviewed appears to be Robert Kelly, an associate professor of political science at Pusan National University in South Korea, who mostly keeps a straight face.
"If you can put the two together, I believe a bridge can be built and is worthy of being built," Mr. Sarkozy said, with a completely straight face.
And while the singer smiled wide for the photo, Luna kept a straight face — one user comparing the 3-year-old's model look to that of her mother.
No art, for a filmmaker as for a novelist, is finer or harder than that of keeping a straight face as you hold the world up to scorn.
There are gimmicks, then there's what these two have done — grown women playing middle-schoolers surrounded by actual middle-schoolers who manage somehow to keep a straight face.
For example, since the BMW X1 made the switch to a front-wheel-drive architecture, it's hard to call it an "ultimate driving machine" with a straight face.
Eight years ago, she could argue with a straight face that she would be unusually tough on Iran, and mock Obama for saying he would negotiate with Tehran.
When Jimmy Kimmel challenged Hillary Clinton to read Donald Trump quotes with a straight face during his Monday night show, she made it through several without cracking a smile.
In fact, as a scholar of the Enlightenment, I'm not sure I'd be able to go about my daily work with a straight face if these weren't my views.
Or should Democrats slam the brakes on their constitutional responsibility, two words Senate Republicans can no longer say with a straight face, to conduct real oversight of the administration?
And the fact that everyone in the cast is keeping a straight face is a testament to the human spirit and a divine sense of comedy in the universe.
Volvo is making sure Europe knows what they are dealing with — a footballer that can quip "I came like a king, left like a legend" with a straight face.
"The fact that I can say that with a straight face tells you how much better Walmart's digital team has gotten over the past couple of years," he said.
CANDACE OWENS, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, TURNING POINT: You have to give her some credit for saying it with a straight face and with a little bit of passion and fire.
Spouting biological balderdash with a commendably straight face, David declares Tris "pure," a designation that comes with all-white outfits and an all-access pass to David's private aerie.
It's not warm, or inviting, necessarily, but it suggests a way we might confront the end with a straight face—to luxuriate in the void, rather than fear it.
There are no "Well, if he hadn't done X, he would have been fine" counterfactuals that even come close to passing the straight face test in this sad story.
It's hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship.
Yankees 5, Indians 4 CLEVELAND — Yankees Manager Aaron Boone may tout the "sneaky athleticism" of his backup catcher Austin Romine, but he cannot do it with a straight face.
One could have said much the same about Nixon's push for IRS investigations of his political opponents, but nobody at the time thought that passed the straight-face test.
For anyone whose job is to keep a straight face around Donald Trump, dozens of private conversations such as these must happen every week, and in much stronger language.
Jeanine, you can&apost with a straight face credibly say that we&aposve spent over -- well, actually two years, next month will be two years since the Russia investigation started.
If Baldwin has to say balls 80 times, he will do that with the straight face of a food podcaster no matter how funny Ana Gasteyer and Molly Shannon get.
As a bonus: this five minutes of sitting across from someone who won't stop saying bonkers things with a straight face was probably great practice for the debate next week.
It was this losing combination that sealed a guilty verdict for this little girl, who's willing to lie with such a straight face with a string of cheese on it.
The list goes on of folks who can't seem to figure out how Republicans can say with a straight face that this $1.47 trillion plan won't add to the deficit.
Hathaway also recalled that her first audition was for a anti-smoking PSA, which required her to keep a straight face while someone pretended to cough up a blue earmuff.
But as it continues to tweak the narrative formula, EA Sports can position itself to say, with a straight face, that every installment of every franchise is a must-own.
"I can't imagine an attorney for Johnson & Johnson standing up in front of a jury now and saying with a straight face that the product is safe," Mr. Noll said.
"My right honorable friend, the leader of the house, is very good at keeping a straight face when he is coming out with arguments that are almost incredible," he said.
"I looked at her and I had the flashback of every time Andy [Cohen] would ask her, 'Have you had your nose done?' and she kept a straight face," Laurita said.
"It's hard to believe the DCCC is still able to push this strategy with a straight face," Katie Martin, spokeswoman for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), said in an email.
"It's hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship," Zuckerman wrote.
Such staples of the mainstream stage are exploited in ways that will make it hard for you to ever again sit through an ersatz Arthur Miller drama with a straight face.
So, yes, Alderson conceded, the odds are long, and the path will be unconventional, but Tebow just might just be the exception, an assertion Alderson could make with a straight face.
The Bears always said with a straight face that Perry was a legitimate offensive threat and not just as a gimmick, but it was hard to take them at face value.
Exchanges like these might make it difficult for the conservative justices to rule with a straight face that Texas had a legitimate interest in protecting women's health when it passed HB103.
That's when Ms. Sladkus, who worked in magazine publishing at the time, said, with a straight face, that she liked to jump rope in high heels at three in the morning.
" And Charles says to Richard, "I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the ability to keep a straight face.
The real highlight, however, comes at the very end, which features a compilation of outtakes, capturing just how challenging it is for Galifianakis and his victims to maintain a straight face.
How, then, could anyone argue with a straight face that it would be more pleasing to drive the Ferrari on pothole-ridden roads than to drive the Porsche on well-maintained ones?
Fast forward five minutes, and you'll find Iron Man teaming up with Dr. Strange, Peter Quill (I just can't call him Star-Lord with a straight face), Drax, Mantis, and Spider-Man.
He's begun to mythologize Vader as a separate entity in his own mind, to the point where Ben later tells Luke that Darth Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin with a straight face.
It's tough to say with a straight face, and Cult of Chucky wisely injects a little bit of humor back into the Child's Play franchise after the more straightforward horror of Curse.
The littlest royal, who turns 2 on Tuesday, is all business in her birthday portrait released Monday — and this isn't the first time she has kept a straight face for the cameras.
McBride said people often ask him which agency runs his social media accounts, "I always answer with a straight face, and I say, 'Mary Tilson, our yoga teacher does it,' " he said.
" The Gals nearly made it through the whole song, but Fallon couldn't keep a straight face while harmonizing Sir Mix-a-Lot's line, "Stick it out, even white guys got to shout.
"They're going to say, 'No, the only thing where we're allowed to take account of is specifically what they said on the record with a straight face about their purpose,'" he said.
Like the judges and police who are pursuing some of the most senior figures in her Workers' Party (PT), she could declare with a straight face her desire to see justice done.
For I'm reminded that whenever my father lost a friendly bet between us, he would say with a straight face that he'd treat me to dinner in the Orange Room at Nedick's.
"Brinkley would put goat testicles inside an impotent man, and nine months later, that man would call himself a father," Mr. Tognacci says in a voice that suggests an affected straight face.
When the prosecutors appealed, they argued, with a straight face, that what had happened to J.T. was so outrageous and illegal that the New Orleans district attorney could not be held responsible.
That they can say with a straight face that they already "invest in their employees, protect the environment and deal fairly and ethically with their suppliers" shows how ethically bankrupt they are.
That they can say with a straight face that they already "invest in their employees, protect the environment and deal fairly and ethically with their suppliers" shows how ethically bankrupt they are.
But say this for the redesign: Even if it fails to increase subscriptions, it makes that deathless dodge "I read it for the articles" a little easier to utter with a straight face.
McCarthy, 48, kept a straight face the entire time as she walked out on stage in an outfit that — in a nod to nominated film The Favourite — any animal-loving queen would envy.
Americans want to watch the best, to root for the best, to have the best, and Garber et al can tell them MLS will be one of the best with a straight face.
"It's very hard to say with a straight face this bill is good for the health care system by any objective measure," said Billy Wynne, a consultant and former Senate Finance Committee counsel.
The responsible-looking page boy (who tried to keep a straight face as Tom Pettifer goofed around) is the son of Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, former private secretary to William and Prince George's godfather.
That this relied on a definition too idiosyncratic for anyone outside the Republican Party hardly mattered because it allowed President Bush to say, "the United States does not torture," with a straight face.
Of his eight excellent dancers, Lindsey Jones has the sharpest knack for his style of deadpan, which requires keeping a straight face as fanciful, ridiculous moves swoop in from out of left field.
If you're asking that with a straight face, then you too have been bitten by the nihilistic bug—or else have confined your understanding of martyrdom to those who strap on suicide vests.
First, we had Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lawyer and longtime pal, tell CNN's Chris Cuomo -- with a straight face -- that he never said that no one in the campaign might have colluded with Russians.
It's hard to argue with a straight face that losing Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green, while adding little to replace them, won't significantly weaken Toronto, but it's probably not time to panic, either.
Having said that, he's also a man who can stand in front of a jury and say the most outrageous things imaginable, and somehow manage to keep a straight face while doing so.
If he's at all like Mr. Jonze, it's because he approaches outrageous or farcical topics with a straight face but he has much stronger views on emotional torture in art: He's for it.
They'll sit there, gut busting through their vintage Tresor t-shirt, stinking to the high heavens of self-regard, and tell you, with a straight face, that "real DJs" don't use USB sticks.
I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election," Clinton said about Vladimir Putin and the Russians "influencing voters, therefore, influencing opinions.
The next post was a video of Kim begging Saint and Reign to keep a straight face by saying "no cheese," before he and Reign tumbled over due to the weight of the costumes.
Earlier this week, I spoke to Weisz over the phone to discuss her attraction to the project, her philosophical take on the film, and the difficulty of keeping a straight face around Colin Farrell.
But seeing this video is giving me major #familygoals, though I'm not sure I'd be able to hold my poses — or a straight face — nearly as well as this mom and dad are managing.
Surely, the senator can't claim with a straight face that, although he is behind Clinton by 2.5 million votes as of now, democratic principles dictate that superdelegates committed to Clinton should switch to him.
"When people would ask Jim Henson about Fraggle Rock, he would say, with a straight face and without fear or guilt, that he wanted the show to bring about world peace," Grillo-Marxuach says.
Is Sanders really contending with a straight face that Democratic superdelegates should switch their support from Clinton to him even though he is so far behind in both the popular vote and elected delegates?
Just another anti-Russian slander, declared Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, presumably with a straight face, when confronted with the latest evidence of Russian perfidy, this time of an attempted cover-up of past cheating.
When asked Monday about why he got involved in the Gawker case, Mr. Thiel gave a defense that only someone with an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion could deliver with a straight face.
There's just no way he can claim he didn't deny Russian hacking with a straight face (especially since he's currently refusing to enforce new sanctions on Russia designed to punish them for said hack).
"It is barely possible to argue with a straight face that it is the shape and overall ornamental design of the iPhone, rather than its functionality, that motivates consumers to buy it," Lemley wrote.
"The reason why people couldn't keep a straight face when he said he was going to introduce a balanced budget is because (Rauner) has never been even close to a balanced budget," Cullerton said.
" You may have thought Pete Davidson was again parodying himself, but the "self-proclaimed Vape God" is — as McKinnon's Ingraham says, struggling to keep a straight face — "a real person I had on my show.
Some Republicans still want to stick to the old he-said-she-said shutdown rhetoric that points the finger at the other party, but that's now a harder position to maintain with a straight face.
"I knew you would be a good father when I saw you in American Sniper," DeGeneres told him, barely able to keep a straight face as she queued up a certain scene from his movie.
" Similarly, Richard A. Posner, the great conservative judge and law professor, has written, "It is rarely possible to say with a straight face of a Supreme Court decision that it was decided correctly or incorrectly.
Whether doing judo with a Photoshopped image of Vladimir Putin, standing in a simulated field of flowers in Dubai, or wearing a beret in front of the Eiffel Tower, he always kept a straight face.
In a video tweeted on Friday, Jackman can barely keep a straight face as he tries to record a "heartfelt birthday message" while a Deadpool-suited Reynolds sings "Tomorrow," from Annie, on the bed behind him.
Although she's played tough bosses in previous roles like "Horrible Bosses," Aniston told CNN it was incredibly difficult keeping a straight face around her co-stars T.J Miller, Kate McKinnon, Courtney B. Vance and Olivia Munn.
And few can argue with a straight face that people who protested the new education secretary actually have anything in common with those who rioted over the 6-year-old girl's presence in an elementary school.
"How can Trump put this forward with a straight face when he opposes marriage equality and selected as his running mate the man who signed an anti-LGBT law in Indiana?" he said in a statement.
And what you just said, that they can sit there with a straight face and say that there&aposs no reason to reopen the Hillary case as Jeff Sessions has said is absolutely ludicrous and incompetent.
Only Trump could say with a straight face, with cheers by Republicans acolytes at their convention, that it is all Obama and Clinton's fault — and think he could get away with it such a blatant lie.
Some more fun scenes featured Caleb's slingshot attempt backfiring against him, a stray cat running into a scene with Dyer, and Harbour unable to say "It's your Grandma" to Finn and Millie with a straight face.
During the nationally-televised broadcast of Minnesota's previous game, a humongous win against Golden State, the 22-year-old said with a straight face that his goal is to be the best player who ever lived.
It's become incredibly hard to think of an industry that hasn't been "disrupted" by shiny, new direct-to-consumer brands — so hard that we can barely even utter the d-word with a straight face anymore.
And while the rest of Kansas City&aposs sideline erupted into a sea of hugs and cheers, Reid kept a straight face and simply raised a finger to the sky to signal for the extra point.
Mulvaney insisted with a straight face that Trump would not profit from the summit, even though millions of dollars from foreign delegations will flood into the coffers of the struggling resort and bring a worldwide branding boost.
A massive Wu-Tang Clan fan found himself on television this week and did what he had to do: He dropped as many references from the rappers as he possibly could, all while keeping a straight face.
At some airports, however, he said he has had to "rub the turban," while trying to hold a straight face, for security officials "and then put my hand in front of them, and they swab my hands."
The married actors can't keep a straight face for long while giving a tour of their modern Los Angeles home, which boasts a casual midcentury style, gorgeous views and an extensive — and occasionally strange — contemporary art collection.
Audiences who know him largely for keeping a straight face as a medical theory-quoting forensic psychiatrist on "Law & Order: SVU" may well want to take this chance to see how artfully he still commands a stage.
" The C.E.O. of another large tech company told me, "It's still not at the point where industry insiders would turn to each other with a straight face and ask what their plans are for some apocalyptic event.
That's a good thing: It's clear there are lots of ways in which The Art of Self-Defense references others, and even leans on them; it presents tropes with a straight face while trying to subvert them.
Judging from the signs scattered throughout the crowd, they want world peace, and they'd like people to "join the conversation" — a message that only buzzword-happy marketers would ever imagine anyone actually imparting with a straight face. Generic!
Since Hale was able to maintain a straight face during this level of high-wire plotting for nearly an entire decade, we could all easily expect more thematic madness from the actress in her PLL follow-up project.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price went on CNN on May 7 and maintained with a straight face that you can cut $880 billion in Medicaid spending and it will "absolutely not" result in anyone losing coverage.
But veteran-status series have let us down before, with modern-day installments, and that includes Nintendo—it's a rare gem of a games enthusiast who can sing the praises of Star Fox Zero with a straight face.
Chris Cuomo got into this with Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday night: McEnany said with a straight face that Trump has never lied, while the media lies every day, and Cuomo said she was shredding her credibility... Trump's insecurity?
As I continue to meet with Giertz over a period of six months, she starts probing into how I'm doing and at one point says with a straight face that she's writing a magazine profile on me too.
The late MLBPA executive director Michael Weiner, who had a great sense of humor, tried his best to give Romero's case its due diligence and with a straight face, as the conference room of Rays players called bullshit.
Trump's continued praise of Putin — and willingness to, with a straight face, argue that Obama is just as immoral as the Russian strongman — suggests that the GOP nominee might actually succeed in building a warm relationship with Moscow.
It signaled both a willingness to let the Supreme Court's decision stand and several reversals of positions the government had insisted upon—repeatedly and with a straight face, in print and in person—during the course of the litigation.
Anyone who watched this week's proceedings unfold would struggle to look at this theory with a straight face, given how rigorously every single lawyer who addressed the judges was put through their paces and examined with no detail spared.
So it's not surprising that we have been given a chance to practice listening with a straight face to all of the promises we can expect to hear as the presidential campaign comes to its ultimate, teeth-rattling conclusion.
"The kittens themselves are sort of accidentally blowing themselves up, they're sort of passively suicidal, and the object of the game isn't to get them to blow up, it's to save them," he said with a somewhat straight face.
Read this paragraph, for instance, and try to keep a straight face: President Trump affirmed on this trip that America First is grounded in American values — values that not only strengthen America but also drive progress throughout the world.
The problem isn't really with the embarrassingly low turnout either, which in primaries averages about 20 percent (though it's hard to say that "the people have spoken" with a straight face when four in five eligible voters remained silent).
"So you, with a straight face, make claims that the Marines' study was flawed and biased, even if you did not even go see the study being performed," McCain said after Mabus said he didn't observe the study firsthand.
See if she can keep a straight face during the comedy portion of the evening, which this year will include Michelle Wolf, a stand-up comic and "Daily Show" veteran whose Netflix series, "The Break," starts later this year.
Consider for a moment what it means for a future, developing, malleable citizen of a democratic society to be taught with a straight face that even though the founders owned slaves, they considered all men to be created equal.
He also struggled to keep a straight face as he spoke with NBA reporter Doris Burke after the big win as Riley did a little dance in front of him, throwing her hands in the air and giving a little shake.
"How can you now change your position with no new studies and look at a jury or a judge with a straight face and say 'this man's cancer and many other people's cancer shouldn't be treated exactly that way'?" he asked.
But, if you've ever had the banana pudding at Magnolia, you cannot possibly tell us with a straight face that their cupcakes are better — and that's before we even get to chains like Taco Bell, Starbucks, and California Pizza Kitchen.
There are a lot of takes that I tend to ruin because I am laughing at something that somebody says because they are also improvising a lot — so it catches me off guard and I can't keep a straight face.
" As Haley began her remarks, she broke from the prepared text to say, "I started to listen to my Russian friend and respond, but instead I am in awe, Vassily, of how you say what you say with a straight face.
Wasden is confident about their case, saying that if he were on the government's side, he'd "have a very hard time defending this with a straight face," saying that "it's clear DOL is delegated authority to define these key terms."
"As I watched President Trump ... try to claim with a straight face that he wants to work in a bipartisan way to lower drug prices, I was stunned by the complete and utter disconnect between his words and reality," Rep.
With a straight face, Derek Feldman, an owner of Sushi on Jones and the bar Uchu said he thought New York needed the ultimate Japanese sando, or sandwich, made with Wagyu, and priced from $28 to $180, depending on the meat.
But coming in a week when Trump called freedom of the press "disgusting" and mused about yanking NBC's broadcasting license in retaliation for a story he didn't like, it has been a hard argument for advocates to make with a straight face.
But I had one festival volunteer, who I think was, like, 75 years old, tell me at the beginning of the screening, in no uncertain terms, with a very straight face, that she was not happy to have been assigned to my film.
The Denver-based confection man sat before a live audience, fully aware that millions of people throughout the country would be able to hear what he had to say, and with a straight face, said that Jesus wouldn't have baked the cake either.
But it feels like Pitt is in a different movie than everyone else — probably because he's giving a character actor's performance in the lead role, where everyone else (save Kingsley, who is cartoonish) seems to be playing their parts with a straight face.
" (this isn't a burn, but try to keep a straight face when he says it) Luke: "I'm not some billionaire white boy who takes justice into his own hands and slams a black kid into the wall because of his personal vendetta.
More often, she tells lies with a straight face, like on Wednesday, when she claimed that Tim Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, had not expressed any "displeasure" with Trump's initial remarks about Charlottesville in a meeting with the president.
"General Kelly was simply making the point that just because history isn't perfect, it doesn't mean it's not our history," she said on Tuesday with an impossibly straight face, utterly ignoring Kelly's "compromise" comment and his gauzy eulogy of Robert E. Lee.
" (It originated with college athletes whose big worked-out thighs didn't fit into normal chinos.) And I remember thinking, "How many Stanford B-school grads trying to strike it lucky with the Next Genius Invention could say that with a straight face?
In their specials, stand-ups mostly keep a straight face, presenting jokes the way an actor performs a part, while hosts like Jimmy Fallon and James Corden are generally easy laughs, cracking up at even the most innocuous stories by famous guests.
John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter: How can the filmmakers keep a straight face when they have Anastasia complaining about Christian's desire to "own" her and then, barely two scenes later, show her agog at a closet full of designer gowns and lingerie?
Even in the first, mainly autobiographical section of the book, Sacks records his own early idiosyncratic passions with a straight face that may be an attempt to normalize his own budding obsessions — among them long-distance and endurance swimming and weight-lifting.
I understand why some people feel torn, don't want to leave the job and the good work, but I couldn't, with a straight face, work for someone who has demonstrated, almost on a daily basis, that he values himself more than the country.
Kawhi's had a tough time containing his emotions ever since the Raps beat the Warriors to win its first championship in franchise history ... and he couldn't keep a straight face as he zoomed through the water on a Great Big Marble boat.
New for 2018, according to this Fox News article (which treats this whole damn farce with an incredibly straight-face), is a dash of Christian rapture via doomsday predictor David Meade, an idea so absurd I'm not even going to bother addressing it here.
A Tall coffee would not have all 12 ounces that he was promised (nor would a Grande or a Venti contain 16 or 24 fully caffeinated ounces), a reality that irritated him so much that he could make these claims with a straight face.
If a public airing of discredited scientific racism delivered with a straight face in court less than two decades ago isn't strange enough, wait for the compounding factor: Dr Quijano was called to the stand not by the prosecutor but by his own lawyer.
I know this might sound ridiculous, but I challenge you to look at me with a straight face and tell me you would have the same easy access to high-quality, true-to-Naples pizza in any other Italian city, such as Milan or Venice.
Thus, IBM was forced to argue with a straight face that the Obama administration's otherwise pitiful gestures toward national security amounted to a form of economic "protectionism" that was trying to stop poor old IBM from engaging in "free trade" with the poor, misunderstood Chinese.
The Boston Crab appears in old judo and jujutsu texts but it is hard to treat with a straight face, until you see the results of one Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitor not releasing his guard as his opponent steps over and drops his weight.
Maybe because of the vice-girl voice of its author, or maybe because of its male ghostwriter, I Am Not Ashamed is in a hard-boiled, pulpy mode, which means that Barbara calls herself "the nuts and boiling hot" with a near-straight face.
The pun clue for AXE had me giggling on and off for hours, and I also liked some little sports hints — IRON, OUTS, DEKED and CUE, which was clued with a straight face and took forever to sink into my brain (rack 'em up!).
How could Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize in Literature last year when the only conventional books he has written are a memoir ("Chronicles: Volume One") and an impenetrable novel ("Tarantula") that even the most rabid Dylanologists have trouble defending with a straight face?
Despite being tormented by her past, she slowly allows her new cop-buddy, Jay Geils (played by straight-face ace Hayes MacArthur), into her life, and the two take on a series of investigations handed over by their irritable chief (a crank-up-the-crankiness Jere Burns).
There's no indication as to how many takes it took for Elba to read it all out with a straight face, but considering just how whacky the romantic tales get about him, surely he must have broken down into tears/laughter at least once or twice?
A band of villainous hunters have a casual conversation about all the innocent people they're going to murder which devolves into an argument over whether it's appropriate to refer to their leader (Udo Kier) as a Nazi — all of which is presented with a completely straight face.
Clinton doesn't need to do anything to add heft and experience to her own résumé, but she does need to be able to say with a straight face that her veep is ready to take over if the worst happens, and Vilsack easily clears that bar.
This was captured in the "Saturday Night Live" sketch of the first presidential debate, when viewers could see Clinton on the split screen, played by the comedienne Kate McKinnon, struggling to keep a straight face as her jaw dropped listening to Trump, played by Alec Baldwin.
"This lawsuit takes this debate out of the hands of voters and instead attempts to argue with a straight face that there is a previously undiscovered 'right' in the U.S. Constitution for men to use women's bathrooms and locker rooms," they said in a joint statement.
Clinton does not particularly need to add gravitas or experience to her ticket, but she does need to be able to say with a straight face that her VP is well-qualified to take over in the Oval Office in the event of her death and incapacitation.
It's a world where you stride on stage like Augustus in his prime to the sounds of "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay without any hint of irony, a world where part of your career is oft-referred to as "the Imperial phase" with a completely straight face.
"I don't know now how Britain could crash this part of Ireland out of the European Union ... and with a straight face suggest to any of us who live on this island that we should not be given the democratic opportunity ... to decide our future," she said.
The Affordable Care Act is probably the most bare-bones version of universal health care that you could still call "universal" with a straight face, and it barely got through Congress, and then only after abortion coverage was compromised and the public option was stripped out.
Natural Wonders, a dispensary in the Hawthorne neighborhood, had a very friendly budtender (a term I learned while in Portland that I still can't say with a straight face) who directed me toward some of the popular edible items, as well as the $5 pre-rolls.
"If you're taking billions of dollars from people whose values are incompatible with yours, you can't say with a straight face that you disagree or dissent," said Wesley Chan, managing director at Silicon Valley-based Felicis Ventures, who previously held a variety of positions at Google.
LOUIE GOHMERT, R-TEXAS: And you have come in here and said, I have no bias, and you do it with a straight face and I watched you in the -- in the private testimony you gave, and I told some of the other guys, he is really good.
It's true that those Republican politicians who whipped up fury against it deployed a stupid and corrupt logic, but it hardly helped that arguing for the mandate with a straight face required one to gloss over the fact that the insurance on offer was both lacking and expensive.
Trump, for anyone to assert that the African-American community is in the worst shape ever, ever, ever, to say that, to assert that with a semi-straight face is to demonstrate an insulting degree of ignorance and/or insensitivity," Brooks told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room.
As the youngest of the Donald/Ivana kids, Eric expressed the greatest devotion to his father and seemed most committed to the practice of denial that allowed him to tell me, with a straight face, that his father was on a par with Winston Churchill and President Theodore Roosevelt.
The front region, by contrast, is where we put on a show for the world, which in Weinstein's case meant playing the role of the old-style film mogul who was fueled by "passion, not profit," as an unnamed executive once told Variety, presumably with a straight face.
In the 21st century it can be hard to talk of "American values" with a straight face; but even at the time critics recognised that Capra's film—much darker than it's often remembered to be, as full of shadow as it is of light—worked a kind of alchemy of emotion.
Although The Lobster is not as willfully abstract as The Neon Demon, it too revels in ambiguity, especially toward the end, and generates humor by playing out its wacky premise — you can easily imagine a shorter version of the film as a Monty Python sketch — with a perfectly straight face.
The 2600's TIA chip synchronizes with an NTSC television picture 60 times per second, so you end up seeing a solid Pac-Man, maze, and video wafers (I can still barely type "video wafers" with a straight face), but the ghosts are each lit only one quarter of the time.
"At a time where there have never been more forcibly displaced people in recorded history, this administration came to Capitol Hill and with a straight face said they were proposing a cut in humanitarian assistance of more than one-third," said Eric Schwartz, the president of Refugees International, an advocacy organization.
Charlemagne has heard an official in Berlin suggest, with a straight face, that Mr Trump would surely change his mind on Mr Putin once the intricacies of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine agreed to give up its legacy nuclear arsenal in exchange for guarantees of territorial integrity, were explained to him.
Frank and Marie Imitate Debra and Raymond Peter Boyle might still be in character when he cracks up at the 1:11 point in this clip, but honestly, we hope it's just because he and Roberts were making each other laugh by imitating Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton to keep a straight face.
I'd encourage Trump to talk to my family, or some of the people I met while covering the island, and tell them with a straight face that there is no crisis in Puerto Rico, and that the US territory is undeserving of the $2.5 billion assigned by Congress last year for reconstruction projects.
There are no dark secrets uncovered by following around a banking executive around for a day, except, perhaps, the dark secret that people in the tech industry really do say things like "key wins" with a straight face and probably don't quite understand why all you little shitheads are giggling about it.
If Ali is the greatest, well, it means the greatest can be beaten by a Leon Spinks (in 1978) and beaten by a Larry Holmes (in 1980) and even by a Trevor Berbick, a relative nobody (in 1981), and still call himself the greatest with a straight face, and still have everybody believe it.
It doesn't always make us a fast mover, but it certainly helps us when we say to an individual who's using that service or to a company that's moving things through that service, we can say with a straight face that we've thought about the safety aspects of it, and that's the No. 1 thing. Gotcha.
It's going to be even harder now for his aides to sell the spin with a straight face because at the very moment the President is complaining that the former vice president is up to his ears in graft in Kiev, two men acting on behalf of his personal lawyer have been accused of the very same offense.
The casual quick-change came after McCarthy, 48, went all out while presenting the award for Best Costume Design alongside fellow nominee Brian Tyree Henry, keeping a straight face the entire time as she walked out on stage in an outfit that — in a nod to nominated film The Favourite — any animal-loving queen would envy.
Ok, I can barely type that line with a straight face, because if you actually think that it's possible to invent a piece of consumer technology that even the least savvy bad actors can't "jailbreak" once they've had a little alone time with it and access to YouTube, then you haven't been following tech very long.
By portraying itself as a victim and not a perpetrator of automation, the world's largest retailer is able to, with a straight face, demand that the government invest in its preparations for a future where it pays workers less, takes on more part-time work, and allows its fleet of machines to send ever more profits upstream.
One has to admire the secretary's ability to keep a straight face when uttering a line such as "the United States and other countries have demonstrated great restraint in hopes that Iranian leadership would choose peace" when the administration he serves has attempted to destroy Iran's economy despite what was full Iranian compliance with the JCPOA.
Trump did not make his famous 2100 "Russia, if you're listening" request -- for help obtaining deleted Hillary Clinton emails -- at an event with "295,295 people," nor did he laugh after he said it; he made the comment at a July 293 news conference, with a straight face, and there was no audible laughter in the room.
Consider what it means for that child to be told with a straight face that there is such a thing as an American dream even as their daily lives open up more opportunity for the kind of macabre nightmares the most comfortable of us tend to think are reserved for despotic so-called Third World nations.
No matter how many legal briefs Remy and the NCAA file, there is no way to explain in plain English with a straight face that it is vital to "protect" college athletes from "exploitation" by denying them a fair portion of the vast sums their labor generates, all while arguing that it isn't vital to protect those same athletes' brains.
The Bolton bombshell makes Republicans tremble because he makes it impossible for Republican senators to say, with a straight face and clear conscience and credibility with voters, that they do not even want to hear critical witnesses, evidence and facts — about the case which they have sworn to consider with integrity and impartiality — from a staunch conservative and committed Republican.
"I have no obligation to be honest with the media," Lewandowski said with a straight face when, under questioning, he was forced to admit that when he had told MSNBC in February that he didn't recall ever having a conversation with President Donald Trump about the possible un-recusal of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the special counsel probe into Russian interference.
Heads I win, tails you lose The President's heads I win, tails you lose strategy in which he is simultaneously claiming credit and deflecting blame is one that only a politician like Trump, who is content living in conflicting realities and thinks nothing of denying something he has been caught on tape saying out loud, could attempt with a straight face.
Friends told Bennett that Melania's straight face that could be seen at many of her public appearances was a result of her Slovenian upbringing and that despite some public perception that she was cold or stiff, Trump was a warm friend and notably sent the White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham text emojis to "convey her happiness, disappointment or surprise."
Democrats and Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 85033 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE can sing the praises of this law until the cows come home, but no one with a straight face can say that it has made healthcare more "affordable" — except the millions whom we gave coverage to for free.
They were often humorous, like the time when, after the second inauguration, he asked the POTUS if he could ride in the limo with him and Michelle, to which Obama responded with a straight face, "Michelle and I were planning to make out"; or, one afternoon when Obama stepped in to coach his daughters' basketball game and, "he thinks it's like the NBA finals," Souza recalls of Obama's competitive nature.
" Eisenstadt's madly saturated color was a little rich even for the relatively commonplace context of her previous novel, "Kiss Out" (though it does feature a parrot-smuggling operation in Mexico), but it seems especially ill-tuned to the disaster times of "Swell," which takes place just months after "an act of terror threatening the entirety of Western culture" (Eisenstadt doesn't even refer to 9/11 with a straight face: "'Knock-knock.
It requires ingesting a lot of blue Kool-Aid to tell folks with a straight face that the Democrats are going to pick up the 60-plus seats in the House that Republicans won in Barack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama21625 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2900 Obama's high school basketball jersey sells for 220006,2202 at auction Dirty little wars and the law: Did Osama bin Laden win?
Referred to during the seeding stage last year, when Zuckerberg gave select face-time to podcast and TV hosts he felt comfortable would spread his conceptual gospel with a straight face, as a sort of 'Supreme Court of Facebook', this supplementary content decision-making body has since been outfitted in the company's customary (for difficult topics) bloodless 'Facebookese' (see also "inauthentic behavior"; its choice euphemism for fake activity on its platform).
"If we do not take action, including potentially arms sales, as a result of this, if it turns out to be what they say it is, then we are not going to be able to with a straight face or any credibility confront Putin or Assad or Maduro in Venezuela or frankly confront the Chinese and their human rights violations," Rubio said on Sunday in an interview with CBS's Face the Nation.
After considering every other possible venue, he reported with a straight face, the White House had decided that the best and only place in the entire 50 states to hold the summit was the President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE-owned National Doral golf course.
" Human rights advocate Wai Wai Nu, speaking outside the court in The Hague, fought back tears as she spoke of her disappointment in Suu Kyi: "I am very surprised with the fact that the leader we respected, loved and adored; I hoped several times for many years that she will stand on the side of victims, but she didn't stand and she denied the obvious and distinct atrocities with a straight face.
"It did get quite sweaty in the car, but we were spritzed down with spray Evian bottles to make us look really like we were in the throes..." During the interview, Winslet also admitted that she "absolutely never" listens to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." Colbert later asked Winslet if she was able to keep a straight face while saying, "Draw me like one of your French girls," and Winslet acted offended at the question.
Only the most stoic among us can keep a straight face, mouth unpuckered, after a suck of lemon, say, or a piece of umeboshi, Japanese salted sour plum — which can contain as much as three times a lemon's citric acid, more than any other fruit — or the first slow, meditative chew of Super Hiper Ácido bubble gum from Ecuador, before its cache of sour powder detonates and any residue of flavor is obliterated by sheer physical recoil.
It's hard to argue with a straight face that it makes sense to give employers the power to determine whether and how much health care their employees are allowed to have, or that it's good for employees to be tied to jobs they hate, or for those workers to have no control over the possibility that their boss switches their coverage to something worse—potentially sending the beneficiaries on a mad scramble for a new primary care physician.
If Putin can claim with a straight face that Russia did not orchestrate the Crimean annexation and has not used regular Russian troops in Ukraine, he can solemnly assert to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE that Russia did not intervene in the U.S. election and "believe" what he says.
If EPA expects its RMP proposal to pass the straight face test as a rule that promotes transparency by making information on hazards and solutions available to people at risk, it must amend its proposal to: Require that all RMP facilities (not just a small subset) determine if safer methods or chemicals are available; Ensure that at least critical summary information from these assessments is directly available to at-risk communities; Provide opportunities for community and worker involvement in all prevention and response planning and decision making processes.

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