Sentences with phrase «straight faces»

In response, «regular» teachers are tasked with customizing, tailoring, and individualizing their instruction so that administrators and policy types can declare with straight faces that their classrooms are diverse and inclusive and that every child's singular education needs are being satisfactorily met.

With the aid of ensemble players who maintain admirably straight faces amid the absurdity, director Jack Plotnick gets an impressive -LSB-...]

With the aid of ensemble players who maintain admirably straight faces amid the absurdity, director Jack Plotnick gets an impressive amount of mileage from a concept — characters in a futuristic sci - fi setting evince «70s angst and attitudes — that might seem at first blush barely adequate to sustain a «Saturday Night Live» sketch.

They're hell - bent on delivering their outlandish argument with straight faces to the poor bastards stuck in Jacobi's dinner theatre.

This means that the Coens» actors — including Samm - Art Williams as another of Hedaya's bartenders — must keep absolutely straight faces as they pursue courses as misguided as they are desperate.

And the whole time they (a) manage to keep straight faces and (b) stay right up in each other's faces!

In some of them journalists are sometimes so brazen that they literally lie with straight faces while being live on air and when later called on it either ignore that or deny the fact.

Books like Holy Hilarity help us break out of the box of reading the Bible with straight faces, so that we can see the truth in the text.

Believe it or not, there was a time when you could say that kind of thing with a straight face in the marketing world.

With a straight face, a young salesman at one company asked the owner, «Gee, what was it like in the recession of» 91?»

I don't think that point of view holds water, but the fact that it's put forward with a straight face makes it pretty unsurprising that a small handful of Wall Street types are going to cling to the notion.

She says it with a straight face.

«For me it's a bit difficult because I drive in an armored car,» she said with a straight face, «and there are no electric versions of that.»

So they're pretty much willing to try to sell anything they can get on file with a semblance of a straight face.

«I just don't know how Uber can argue with a straight face that as a $ 40 billion dollar company it can't afford to insure its drivers, pay minimum wage or pay overtime, or be reimbursed for their expenses.

You can see him, at 0:17 - 0:19, genuinely struggle to keep a straight face before eventually mustering a droll understatement.

Despite indicators showing that the economy can in no way be growing at an annual rate of 7 % (for example, in the first seven months of this year, power consumption grew barely 1 % while rail freight fell 10 %), Chinese officials continue to insist, with a straight face, that growth is meeting the 7 % target.

«How they do this with a straight face I'll never know.»

Do you really think anyone can say with a straight face that Blackberry will be profitable in 50 + years?

Presumably, they said this with a straight face, although I'm not sure how.

Fresh off the announcement that it was going to pay a $ 13 billion settlement over questionable mortgage practices, JPMorgan Chase made a social media gaffe big enough to make Anthony Weiner blush: With a straight face, it invited the public to ask one of its top executives for career advice.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

So for all those saying that «Bitcoin is a bubble» and that «it will end in tears» please take a look at the traditional markets and tell me with a straight face that this is heading to a happy place.

Our start - up got to live the American dream thanks to the open internet, and I want to be able to tell aspiring entrepreneurs with a straight face that they can build the next Reddit.

I would like to see the Vatican say this with a straight face!

And what is most baffling about this is that Karen Zacharias (and many, many others, apparently) can talk about this with a straight face, and others will take them seriously.

It is amazing to see Santorum misinterpret, invent facts, and argue in favor of nonsensicle positions with a straight face.

Yakman2 If your daughter got up infront of a committee of any kind and said with a straight face that she pays $ 1000.00 + for contraceptives, she would deserve the same thing and instead of violence toward Rush, or anyone else for that matter, you should be embarrassed that the product of your raising turned out with such a lack of intelegence.

- How anyone can write that garbage with a straight face is beyond me.

How can you make such a false statement with a straight face?

With a straight face, Isay said this was entirely acceptable, «as long as the erotic attraction was satisfying to both the boy and the ewe.»

With these ever changing interpretations, its amazing the religious can say their religions aren't man made with a straight face!

Even if we are relatively pious, it would be hard to keep a straight face if — on our way home from church, for example — we were beset by an itinerant preacher like John who wanted us to «repent.»

Today, some 2,000 years later, we are still answering yes with a straight face... and God must be laughing (or weeping) at our lack of self - critical distance.

We're choking on cutesy things and crafty bits, safe lady topics and if one more person says that modest is hottest with a straight face, I may throw up.

Okay, sorry, I couldn't even type that last sentence with a straight face.

You can post that link, with a straight face, and claim it as «proof»?

Why should we be expected to keep a straight face when they talk about «moral» issues?

do kill innocent muslims for money power... do lie all the time do keep a straight face do nt ever say no to killing muslims do nt ever say no to jews do nt ever tell the truth path to success goes over a graveyard of innocent muslims

@ Doris: read naturechaplain's description again of the God of the Bible & ask me that with a straight face.

With a straight face, they will defend a god of vengeance, genocide, petty murder, slaughter, eternal torture, etc., etc., etc., and proclaim that they have some sort of moral high ground.

I went to a Bible study once where one guy said, with a straight face, how he has «no interest» in learning more about his faith because it's meant to be a «simple faith».

I can't keep a straight face for all these disgraced big shots who «find religion» to water down their dirty laundry for the sake of somehow staying on the gravy train.

That sense of justice would be great, unfortunately I am not delusional, I do not have a single digit IQ, I can not believe in fairy tales with a straight face.

Maybe a work of fiction and the friction that it's caused is sickening the devils's dog and the evidence has no one thinking a celebrity perhaps at worst a novelty how can you speak his name with a straight face?

U.S. support for dictators in Cuba, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua, Brazil, South Korea, Argentina, and numerous other places did not prevent our leaders from talking with a straight face about «freedom and democracy.»

you should probably go back and review some of the basics of your fairy tale so that you can relate it with a straight face.

With an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disease.

But take a look at the carnage in the Thirty Years War, a war between two groups of Christians who were horrified that anyone dared to believe other than the way they did, and tell me with a straight face that the religious zealots who waged that war wouldn't have used ANY technological advantage they might have gotten their hands on and didn't kill with modern bombs not because of self restraint but because of lack of availability.

With a straight face, he declared Amos Oz's My Michael to be more dangerous to Israel as a nation than all the Arab armies.