Sentence examples for deadpan manner from inspiring English sources

"Oh, well," he said, in his customary deadpan manner.

In fact, his campaign frames her in a strikingly deadpan manner.

"Maybe," the Korean said in his deadpan manner during a meal in Koreatown.

Instead, she recited poems and treatises -- she called them treasises -- in a delightfully ingenuous, deadpan manner.

After touring the facilities, he asked in a deadpan manner whether his yacht might also be equipped with a torpedo.

Mr. Rogers, an Alan Alda look-alike, employs an engagingly deadpan manner in this charming production, directed by David Christopher.

Smith's deadpan style, along with his lugubrious manner and large build, quickly established him as one of the country's favourite television performers in the early 1980s.

In a typically deadpan police manner, the chief then described what Mr. Hackett had been doing with the torch.

Despite his youth and beanpole skinniness, Mr. Benson — wide-eyed but deadpan in manner — already has the height of a grown-up.

A specialist emerges from the kitchen with the whole bird on a cart; he is dressed all in white -- apron, T-shirt, Howard Johnson-style cap -- and has the deadpan tableside manner of a taxidermist.

This is a serious film about guilt and forgiveness, about pedophilia and how the paranoia it inspires has come to poison normal human relations and innocent displays of affection — but it is told in Mr. Solondz's often very funny, deadpan, surreal manner.