So I sacked her, of course.' A last, deadpan smile, and a warm, in the best sense, handshake, and I finally take my leave, and walk the wrong way down the long corridor; and, realising my mistake, half-tiptoe back past the wide open door, past the suite.
"And you can see in the movie how ridiculous we look," Mayhugh noted with a deadpan smile.
When their faces break from deadpan to sickly smile, the combination of artfulness and sincerity is disarming.
You could track his effect on the room by watching the reaction of Bill Clinton, whom MSNBC popped in a window next to Booker, as it moved from deadpan interest to smiling delight.
Actually the Jesus in the Las Vegas number is pretty funny, thanks to Mr. Torti's self-infatuated smile and deadpan timing.
The placid faces are best: Ann Packer of England winning the 800-meter final with the slightest of satisfied smiles; the virtually deadpan Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bakila loping in front of a field left far behind in total physical devastation.
The cops exchanged tiny smiles and went deadpan again.
More drawn to the profane than to the sacred, Mr. Wain and his co-writer, Ken Marino, achieve periodic comic transcendence; a segment in which a virginal librarian (Gretchen Mol) finally gets it on with a Fabio-styled Mexican carpenter named Jesus (a marvelously deadpan Justin Theroux) would extract a smile from the pope himself.
usually in a short, deadpan chuckle, and does not smile when he laughs.
Gone is the mischievous smile, replaced by a deadpan expression that does not change in happiness or sorrow.
