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Significats de poker-faced en anglès

Deliberately impassive in manner.

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        Alter course to west by south. He glanced at Bolitho's impassive features.
        Success to the Brave
        2
        Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
        Les Misérables
        3
        The Englishmen kept staring in the same impassive fashion with fixed glances.
        The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
        4
        But she spoke at length in the same impassive voice as before:
        The Old Homestead
        5
        I glanced at the strange woman; she sat as impassive as ever.
        Dead Man's Rock
        1
        His rabbity features stayed expressionless; he'd seen his share of bodies before.
        American empire: blood and iron
        2
        The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
        The Blind Spot
        3
        He spoke the words deliberately; his face remained absolutely still and expressionless.
        Greatheart
        4
        Hearing my approach, they exchanged slicing sideways glances before facing me, expressionless.
        Bones on Ice
        5
        Ken Day sat, expressionless, in the front row of the public benches.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
        1
        Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
        Reuters
        2
        Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
        Wired
        3
        I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.
        The last four days of Paddy Buckley
        4
        That deadpan quality was much in evidence as he explained this move.
        The Guardian
        5
        I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
        Feminist dot com
        1
        M. Didot's face was as unexpressive and as ambiguous as an oracle.
        Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
        2
        Giordano's original melody is for the greater part commonplace and unexpressive.
        Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
        3
        Fletcher Kale's gray eyes remained flat and unexpressive, but he turned quite pale.
        Phantoms
        4
        Did I not know what a lovely soul hid behind that unexpressive countenance?
        Wilfrid Cumbermede
        5
        Not bad faces on the whole, but heavy and unexpressive.
        Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
        Ús de poker-faced en anglès
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        I didn't know which one because they were all so poker-faced.
        The Guardian
        2
        Mohammad asks the clutch of poker-faced farmers standing round and stroking their beards.
        Reuters
        3
        He waited there, poker-faced, until Payne took a seat as well.
        Sword of god
        4
        He just nodded, poker-faced, and kept his eyes on the road.
        Dexter Is Dead
        5
        That drew wry smiles out of Carmen and Nancy, though Jenny remained poker-faced.
        You can't stop me
        6
        A poker-faced Obama said he would wait to let them know his final decision.
        Obama's wars
        7
        He's also wisecracking and flirty, which doesn't escape the eye of the poker-faced detective.
        Reuters
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        Those who can remain poker-faced are in line to win prizes of free day passes.
        The South African
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        She remained poker-faced, but surely she was laughing inside.
        The Kingmaker
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        I glanced at the guard outside, who stood poker-faced.
        Sovereign
        11
        She looked as poker-faced as I was trying to.
        The Night of the Long Knives
        12
        He seemed calm and relaxed, as poker-faced as ever.
        The quants: how a new breed of math whizzes conquered wall stree...
        13
        Judge Fang, by a conscious effort, remained poker-faced.
        The Diamond Age
        14
        Hislop imagines the owners paying poker-faced lip service to the ban then merrily passing the salt.
        The Guardian
        15
        She looked, however, rather poker-faced, Paige thought.
        Cities in Flight
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        Everyone was poker-faced for the first 5 or 10 rounds, Stewart says.
        Radio NZ