po-faced

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Nowhere is comedy less expected than in the po-faced world of politicians running for election.

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  • | I opened up the video for this track and the first thing I saw was a really po-faced metalhead with long blond locks playing a cello, so I knew I was experiencing art. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • The video also has the aforementioned po-faced metalheads playing Victorian prostitutes like cellos, which is by far the gayest metal-video misogyny I've ever seen. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Ballard is on shaky ground when it comes to the lack of imagination and interminability of the excerpts (they are all short!) but he's damn right about the unintentional humour, the po-faced gravity, the elaborate detail and the daft names. —  The Guardian World News
  • In fact, and ironically, those po-faced Yanks, the spectre in every good liberal's nightmares, would probably enjoy the bits of the film that show Muslims as loons who, in Maher's seemingly Bush-inspired words, might create a future 'decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism' (2).
  • There's a po-faced, utterly serious quality to the proceedings, which means nobody cries "yuck" when Ainslie utters an aside about gastric bypasses. —  Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
 

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