Sentences with phrase «deadpanned when»

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When Chara remarks that he is famished after a long workout, a PR assistant starts listing menu items served in the team cafeteria today: steak tips, chicken... «So,» deadpans Chara, «everything I don't eat.»

Lemieux's deadpan expression dissolves into a beatific smile when he's told of all the kvetching.

«When I announced yesterday that I'm running for governor, one of Cuomo's top surrogates dismissed me as an «unqualified lesbian,»» the «Sex and the City» actress Nixon deadpanned to supporters during a campaign launch party at the Stonewall Inn.

Cuomo, as you can hear, got a laugh when he deadpanned: «OK.

The audience laughed at that — and also as he recounted his mother's deadpan response when he asked her how she wound up with six children, all but two of whom have different fathers: «It was the 1960s and people were having a lot of sex.»

At once profoundly dignified, as birds of such ancient lineage should be, they are at the same time masters of deadpan clowning, particularly when two or three birds contend for the same fish.

Remember when in The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestley deadpans, «Florals?

During my 100 date experiment, I can't tell you how many deadpan stares would cross my computer screen when perusing online dating profiles.

moments like the one when Davis sees the giant wolf perform an aerial maneuver and he deadpans: «Of course the wolf flies.»

McGuigan doesn't allow his movie to suffer from delusions of grittiness; he's aiming for deadpan urban sophistication, and even when he doesn't hit the mark, you can at least appreciate the direction he's headed in.

To wit: Marlo is a quick draw when it comes to deadpan looks and sharp quips, but also, and of course, loving and exceptionally competent.

Two performances in Game Night stood out to me, which is an accomplishment, since everyone in the film gave memorable and entertaining performances from Magnussen's look of child - like wonder when he was right about something everyone else doubted to Horgan's quick wit and ability to quickly and naturally go from moments of honest laughter to moments of unforgettable deadpan.

Though both stars are sometimes eclipsed when the film strains for big action episodes, Mr. Duchovny sustains enough cool, deadpan intellect and suppressed passion to give the story a center.

When frustrated shirt salesman Wikström (Kaurismäki regular Sakari Kuosmanen) first swerves his vintage car past Syrian refugee Khaled (Sherwan Haji, folding depths of emotion into Keaton - style deadpan), it's a fleeting introduction that ties their fates together through low - key coincidence — a force that eventually reunites them, once the former's quest to open a restaurant coalesces with the latter's path through applying for asylum.

>> After the dreary arthouse po - faced Archipelago what a relief to see a home grown film which is movie - literate and bounces along with a deadpan humour which makes you chuckle quietly throughout >> There was more and louder laughter for Archipelago than for Submarine when I saw it a couple of weeks ago.

Don't get us wrong, this is no deadpan drama, just we get to see the slightest glimpse at Wade Wilson when the smiles, wisecracks and bullets are put to one side.

Ari Graynor — who struggles with a part that Renee Zellweger might have nailed a decade or so ago — plays a money - hungry secretary who thinks she's struck gold when a childhood pal and co-worker (a deadpan Colin Hanks) collects a $ 36 million lottery jackpot.

Still, this tame but fitfully funny goof on suspense cinema at least assembles an agreeable guest list — from McAdams, beamingly charming even when her character is fishing a bullet out of her husband's arm, to a hysterically deadpan Jesse Plemons, playing the awkward, heartbroken cop who lives next door.

When Aki Kaurismaki, Finland's deadpan farceur of minimalist slapstick, absurdist comedy and bruised romanticism, teamed up with the aggressively eccentric rock and roll cover band Leningrad Cowboys, a mix of bar band performance, punk attitude and polka flourishes, to make the surreal rock and roll road movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America, who knew it would be the beginning of a surreal collaborative friendship?

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

Because Kenney and his deadpan cohort were so constantly messing with one another, they're usually tripped up when one of them yields to a moment of sincerity.

The film's surreal humour delivered in deadpan dialogue might go over some people's heads, especially when blended with the moments of extreme violence.

The movie is also funniest when Lang's team is in on the act, thanks to the deadpan humor of Michael Pena (who may finally get some mainstream success) and Scott's fellow tech - nerd crew of criminals.

The entire film is anchored by Moore's unabashed sincerity and deadpan wit, and longtime fans will especially appreciate the moment when he thanks an interview subject for being «the first CEO to meet with me on the factory floor.

The whole enterprise is overseen by Olivia Colman's hotel manager, who lords it up with deadpan restraint; even when she starts singing a duet with her husband, the mood is as un-amorous as could be.

Indeed, it's difficult to get worked up when the characters themselves show little emotion and deliver their lines in a strikingly deadpan, monotone manner, even when confronted with inappropriate sexual moments that Lanthimos seems to include just to make his audience uncomfortable.

In the meantime, when asked about his fellow Best Comedy Album nominees receiving puppies from host James Corden as consolation prizes, Chappelle deadpanned, «I would love to get one of those puppies.»

There is a real sense of life to the action, even when it steers well into the realm of the absurd, although the emotional core of the film is often subsumed by its deadpan humor.

Durst's deadpan reaction when asked whether he'd purposely shaved his head and eyebrows to avoid detection while on the lam still haunts me: «How do you accidentally shave your eyebrows?»

Jesse Plemons is a deadpan delight as Max and Annie's next - door neighbor Gary, a cop who never takes off his uniform, is wallowing in self - pity because his wife left him — and takes it VERY personally when he's not invited to Game Night.

But everything else in his life (including playing bass in a band) fades to insignificance when he lays eyes on Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Live Free or Die Hard), his deadpan pixie dream girl.

When the topic returns to Marvel's slate and specifics about, say, whether there's a Guardians of the Galaxy Easter egg in the new Thor trailer, he deadpans, «I can neither confirm nor deny.»

The Cable actor, however, gets serious when he needs to with facial expressions which say all the right words but also deadpans his no - nonsense lines which often end up hilarious in all the right ways.

The central joke in «The Humbling,» which was directed with great deadpan flair by Barry Levinson and written by Buck Henry and Michael Zebede, fits Pacino's observation: Here is a thoroughgoing actor who can't dispel his theatrics even when he is at his most «real.»

The deadpan Lanthimos thing works better when theirs a really high darkly comedic concept (a la The Lobster and Dogtooth).

He tiptoes to the brink of admission when he remarks that his wife, Elizabeth Hill, a writer he met in grad school, is his first reader and the reader he has in mind when he writes his novels, and then adds, deadpan, «Even though she's my ideal reader, she's not my ideal reader, since she hasn't finished either of my books.

There are plenty of funny exchanges between the two, such as when Kratos deadpans, «A soldier only sees beauty in the blood of his enemy.»

It's all pretty stupid stuff, but it's all played so deadpan, and it's hard not to be charmed when your collecting items with names like «The Candle of Darkness», «The Talisman of The Cyclone» and «The Gremlin Stick».

This primary - color portrait of the cartoon mouse introduced Lichtenstein's detached and deadpan style at a time when introspective Abstract Expressionism reigned.

The work culminated in an illustrated lecture presented to architecture students at the University of Utah in 1972, in which Smithson gave a deadpan structural analysis of the hotel where he, Nancy Holt, and Virginia Dwan stayed when visiting Chiapas in 1969.

«A VIP centre for my grandad for when he comes back,» she says deadpan, pulling that tea towel round her shoulders and turning to head back to the party.

«AND ONE LAST THING: AVOID ASSHOLES,» Jaime Davidovich deadpanned, in a final piece of advice to my art students when, in the summer of 2015, we met him in his Bronx Museum retrospective, «Adventures of the Avant - Garde.»

How convenient, then, that UN Environment Program's Nick Nutter can deadpan, «when someone here dies from malaria, they say God has taken them» — not baby - killing policies.

There were many times when dad would lose himself talking about how they met, or how awkward he was during their first dates, or how once he bought a bouquet to woo her and she deadpanned white flowers are used for funerals in Korea.