Sentence examples for utterly straight from inspiring English sources

Director Gary Ross takes the yarn's well-worn conceit and plays it utterly straight, as though freshly minted.

I Love You" looks squeaky clean and utterly straight and very much removed from the shadow worlds in which Ms. Swank has done her best work.

The grazing itself is the one serious moment in a farcical film; there is a brief closeup of Brian looking stirred and intrigued as he listens to Jesus deliver, utterly straight, the Sermon on the Mount.

They also all had beautiful auburn curls, while I got the utterly straight, dishwater blond hair.

Many of them say this with an utterly straight face and, in fact, at least some of them are genuinely sincere about it.

"You my nigger, right?" "Yes," Larry says, utterly straight-faced.

Not that the show is too simplistic or arch – it's utterly straight-faced, like a Ripper Street for the Sleepy Hollow enthusiast.

Nor is it something this utterly straight-faced, unstintingly pretentious film, which opens today at the Quad, is interested in providing its audience.

There they both go, eyes straight ahead, utterly intent on what they're trying to do — get the girl, understand Communism — and oblivious of the felled houses, the outraged constables that they leave in their wake.

When he ran, his face was utterly composed, his back straight, his hips forward, his upper body so relaxed that it looked as if he would fall over if you gave him a push.

He's really cool in it, plays it completely straight, and is utterly believable as the hunk majordomo whose respect all the tight-vest-wearing honeyz crave, to the extent that you just want to watch it all over again once it ends.