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Free sign up"deadpan expression" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe someone's facial expression that is not revealing any emotion, and can be used in many contexts. For example: "John's deadpan expression gave nothing away, and those in the room had no idea of his true thoughts".
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His deadpan expression dissolved into a mischievous grin, and I knew he had me.
With a deadpan expression, the guard replied: "I wouldn't go out.
"Il a mangé?" If he is joking, the deadpan expression is inscrutable.
Then Ed put them in a pile on his head and looked at me with that deadpan expression.
Chris put the scope on it, had a long look, and turned to me with a deadpan expression.
Kmett'Pendry had a mysterious deadpan expression that you felt hid a laugh; Lifson was more opaque, but just as game.
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The adolescent protagonists, caught with deadpan expressions, suggest scenarios of moral dilemmas.
Uncanny, deadpan expressions quash the idea that these photographs might document actual events, yet the subjects' physical ease with one another seems real.
A nearer parallel may be Warhol's "Thirteen Most Wanted Men," a 1964 black-and-white series based on police mug shots of criminals, with their stock poses and deadpan expressions.
Skinny and pony-tailed, with baggy torn pants and deadpan expressions (except when they are shouting excitedly), they are virtuoso percussive players on, yes, buckets, and extraordinary tap dancers, as capable of channeling hip-hop as Astaire-like suavity.
Broad humor, executed by a cast wearing unwavering deadpan expressions, is the style of this 22-episode Canadian series, made in 1997 and just coming into syndication in America.
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