Sentence examples for for deadpan effect from inspiring English sources
She paused for deadpan effect.
And this deadpan effect is achieved by very plausible stunned behaviour on the part of the two inventors, who don't turn cartwheels or immediately scramble for winning lottery numbers, but look as if the universe might just split in two, right where they have found the hairline crack.
With a Czech eye for deadpan irony, the policy was officially known as "normalization".
Parental neuroblasts (NB) stain for Deadpan and mγ-LacZ, whereas ectopic 'de-differentiated' neuroblasts stain for Deadpan but not mγ-LacZ.
Similar analyses were performed for Deadpan and Snail and for both transcription factors; DNA conservation was enriched surrounding their binding sites (Supplementary Figure S5).
Motif discovery using MICRA identifies sites consistent with previously published in vitro studies for Deadpan (CACGCG and CACGTG) (Winston et al, 1999, 2000) and Snail (CAGGTA) (Mauhin et al, 1993) (Supplementary Figure S6).
He's trying for an effect of deadpan portraiture, and some of his writing has a surprising kick — a few words at the end of a seemingly conventional line that reveal the speaker's sweetly neurotic soul.
Rather than rushing his jokes, he delivers them slow and deadpan, pausing for effect, using his hands for emphasis.
Milchard won the award for best actor in a comedy for his deadpan performances.
The DJ for the radio was chosen to be Steven Wright, a comedian known for his deadpan delivery of jokes.
