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deadpan [ˈdɛdˌpæn] adj & adv
with a deliberately emotionless face or manner deadpan humour ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
deadpan adjective expressionless, empty, blank, wooden, straight-faced, vacuous, impassive, inscrutable, poker-faced, inexpressive his deadpan expression Translations deadpan [ˈdɛdˌpæn] 1. adj (face) → impassibile; (humour) → all'inglese deadpan [ˈdɛdˌpæn] 1. adj (face) → impassibile; (humour) → all'inglese How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The account of architectural theory is so dead-pan that one suspects a lack of architectural response, and this is supported when, for example, the architecturally finest of `tower blocks' are confused: a picture of Goldfinger's Balfron Tower is mislabelled Trellick Tower, and Basil Spence's impressive and lamented Hutchesontown flats are described merely as `elaborate' when Bunton's appalling Red Road (Glasgow) is a `mighty outcrop'. Set against a backdrop of silly cloud formations (read: impoverished nature trope), Lovers in the Country, 1993, Lovers, 1993, and The Owens, 1994, depict these various gentleman accompanied by their buxom-blond significant others, and it is with these wacky icons of interpersonal devotion that Currin stages a dead-pan comedy of manners in which noxious kitsch romanticism has bought out the competition to become the final "truth. The music is doo-wop being funny by cross-breeding itself with various pop styles (David Byrne, the Beatles) and by bouncing off of its polished, dead-pan surface lyrics that satirize contemporary life. |
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