Sentences with phrase «in deadpan»

«They were actually trying to climb in the building,» he recalls in a deadpan tone.

Apparently not interested in deadpan statements or the lure of eye - candy, she creates works that are for all their luminosity quite minimal and understated.

Early interviews with the artist reveal an enjoyment of slapstick comedy and there is something of this in the deadpan combination of incongruous elements.

In a deadpan voice, Thomas speaks the words in a continual loop, pointing us towards the inconsistencies and problems of language.

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the her sly sense of humor.

Stubbs» earlier paintings look like cakes but also, in their deadpan way, seem to allude to the painterly abstraction of artists like Robert Ryman or Jasper Johns.

He delighted in the deadpan materiality that gave his works form, graphically reproducing such ordinary subjects as kinks of twisted wire or the optical effects of transparent plastic.

But a huge proportion of works deal in words rather than images, in the deadpan inter-national language of English.

Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self - portrait photographs featuring the artist in deadpan poses revealing the artist's sly sense of humor.

The line, delivered in a deadpan style by «Game of Thrones» actor Peter Dinklage, who voices the AI companion Ghost in Destiny, gave gamers a good laugh and prompted Bungie to assure players that Dinklage would return to the recording booth before the game's release.

In Chicago, an uninviting, poker - faced Grossman allows Davis to play a song, only to tell him in a deadpan, matter - of - fact tone: «I don't see much money here.»

This film is a master class in deadpan comedy.

• Arm in arm with her «poet» (Richard E. Grant), tipsy Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter) buttonholes a snotty maître d' to ask, in deadpan upperclass register, if he might recommend a nearby «secluded bower»... A Merry War...

Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, 2016) From the master — a masterpiece of existential absurdity, in deadpan choreography.

WHY: «What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a very funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Maguire is also good in his deadpan performance.

He captures — in a deadpan, almost scientifically - objective way — the processes through which we assimilate and interpret machine - fed data, replicating in that sense the sort of Pop aesthetic of Warhol's ilk without the snarky sense of milk - fed superiority.

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 Blues Brothers go on their comic odyssey in deadpan fashion, almost literally leaving behind every stop destroyed, and yet, they seem almost oblivious to it all.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

It's often funny, too, in a deadpan, gallows - humour sort of way, and more than ever Payne allows the humour to rise up gently from his story rather than burst through it.

Observing the impromptu scene gathering around the Kentucky coach, New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry asked Cal in his deadpan manner if he could get him a chair.

Not exact matches

«This is pioneering content,» deadpanned Chris Sacca, a noted investor in Twitter (which owns Periscope), as Professor Fuzzlepants snacked on hay, planted firmly in the «Study» section.

(You will love how her deadpan wit surprises you in unexpected places, even in informational charts and graphs!)

She was memorable in early roles on Funny People and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, two films stuffed with memorable actors, but Parks and Rec — no slouch in the memorable cast department itself — is where she made a name for herself as an unparalleled master of deadpan delivery.

Masters of Atlantis is the deadpan account of how a young American Lamar Jimmerson becomes convinced in 1918 that he has been given the charge of bringing the teachings of Gnomonism, the true Pythagorean science esoterically passed down over the ages from the survivors of Atlantis, to his fellow Americans, and of how he actually gathers a significant following of believers, with the help of the Great Depression and some all - American promotional methods.

Whether fighting rampaging zombies in Zombieland or teenage ennui in Adventureland, Jesse Eisenberg broke out big in 2009 as a young star with a unique mix of deadpan wit and...

Deadpan comedian Nate Bargatze made another appearance on The Tonight Show this week, this time telling a story about a time he saw a dead horse on his way up to Mt. Rainier in Seattle.

Though Starbucks said that the parody store — which was giving away free coffee — was an infringement on its copyright, Fielder deadpanned at a press conference that, «They're smart in not pursuing a case they know they can't win.

In the trailer, she roleplays Frozen with Kristen Bell (and ends up pointing a gun at her), deadpans the line «I guess orange is the new white,» and has a lot of Zack Morris - style breaking - the - third - wall winks at the camera.

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.»

Afterward, in a tense locker room, J.R. Smith deadpanned, «We got ta figure out what's wrong with us.»

Asked by a young white reporter why he wasn't fighting for freedom in the South, Liston deadpanned, «I ain't got no dog - proof ass.»

In the huddle, guard Keith Bishop famously deadpanned, «We've got»em right where we want»em.»

Today, if snippets of it are not airing on stadium scoreboards, chances are it's playing to laughs in team clubhouses, where Bob Uecker's deadpan calls («Juuust a bit outside!»)

Particularly enjoy your benteke-gate swipe, and your deadpan approach in general,.

With deadpan humour, she mocked the tussle going on in the Conservatives to succeed Cameron by enquiring about Osborne's ambitions and also singling out Theresa May.

Jeremy Corbyn's stand - in once again rallied the Labour troops with her trademark deadpan humour.

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And they laughed along as Zemsky deadpanned about almost missing the Dec. 8 ceremony because, waking up in his Buffalo home, he called an Uber.

«They certainly weren't desperate for pastrami,» Felder deadpanned about the 1412 Ave. J break - in in Midwood.

Though * actual * calorie requirement is reasonably predictable in approximation once the necessary variables are controlled for — height, weight, bodyfat %, activity levels, etc. — it's still not deadpan uniform across the population.

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

«It would take me ten years to burn this whole thing down,» Owens says, in signature deadpan.

Morris's approach in his portrait films is deadpan, sardonic, wondering.

She's got a deadpan delivery that makes her fun and entertaining, even while she's slaughtering everybody in her path.

Jarmusch's punk minimalist style, deadpan humor and delicious timing are all his own, and his oddball drifters, whose major goal in life is hanging out, are three slob existential stooges Sam Beckett might envy.

As always, there are many laughs to be had in the characters» deadpan delivery of strange, intentionally stilted dialogue, as well as in the understated and decidedly non-wacky physical comedy.

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.

Deadpan, the film allows us to register the difference between T'Challa and Erik as an African and an African American — Erik being burdened by the traumas and injustices of American history in a way T'Challa is not.