"Industry is a city just like any other, "he mumbles, straight-faced.

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Everyone but me was straight-faced at this presentation.

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When Bar-Lev asks Laura and Mark point-blank whether they might have helped Marla a little and got in over their heads, their straight-faced reactions, ending with Laura in tears, do less to alleviate doubts than to add a layer of discomfort, which is all the more dismaying because no one wins.

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To be sure, the Web hasn't been overly kind to the scribe who brought us such pearls as "News flash you stupid c---s: FRATS DON'T LIKE BORING SORORITIES." Shannon's send-up has been joined by other parodies, from a straight-faced version from Alison Haislip of "The Nerdist" to this dramatic reading by a Barbie doll.

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Conservative Douglas Carswell, a well-known Eurosceptic, told MPs they faced a straight forward choice: vote to give people a referendum or vote not to trust the people.

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Some fishermen, faced with 40-foot (12-metre) waves, took to their boats and headed straight over them: echoes of Hokusai's deliverymen.

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So when I faced the TV and held the controller directly in front me, the controller screen displayed the same straight-ahead point of view as the TV.

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