| Any social commentary is mostly of the exactly-what-it-says-on-the-tin variety and is ultimately po-faced and humourless. |
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| The downside is that all we have here is a very long, very po-faced, mystic, pseudo-religious battle between our old mates good and evil. |
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| They can be slightly po-faced affairs and often there will be slightly mental or self-obsessed people in the audience who ask strange or self-aggrandising questions. |
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| We imposed it, in our po-faced, disciplinarian way, on our colonial subjects around the world, and they loved it so much that they are still using it, long after we've gone. |
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| Watching a po-faced segment where a schoolgirl is falsely led to believe her parents have died from heroin abuse in an attempt to ward her off drugs elicits a mixed response. |
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| She loud, she's brash and she's winding up po-faced moral guardians by subverting sexual stereotypes. |
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| These East Africans have a healthy, smart, informed scepticism and the media manages to remain admirably po-faced when dealing with delicate political issues. |
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| In the British press at least, there is a tradition of publishing spoof articles in as po-faced a fashion as possible on April 1st and seeing how many people fall for them. |
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| The thing that really grates, though, is the po-faced sermonising on global warming and heavy-handed attempts to make Serious Points about Serious Issues. |
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| What a depressing lack of sense too from this increasingly po-faced Government, which displayed once more its desire to interfere, to have something to say about everything. |
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| In fact, some self-help books intended as parodies of the genre contain more sensible advice than those offered in po-faced seriousness. |
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| McLean's version of conceptualism was never po-faced. |
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| It was completely wrong because it was all about family values and he was so po-faced and serious. |
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| Certainly, as a corrective to some of the more po-faced excesses of cool London club culture, rave was a blast of fresh air, an important rupture. |
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| Who's the jailer now, you po-faced NHS-grade dolly? |
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| I don't think Strauss wrote for such a po-faced, reverent audience. |
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| Ninety minutes of po-faced windbaggery devoted to a terrifying modern addiction which many observers believe has got way out of control. |
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| But to me, the scurrilousness has the pasty complexion of po-faced error. |
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| He became the much-needed soul of the Sixties folk boom, bringing the open emotionality of gospel to a scene predominantly given to sententious moralising and po-faced traditional purism. |
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| Often the joke is achieved by a po-faced conjunction of the grandiloquent and the thumpingly mundane. |
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| It's all gloriously silly stuff as po-faced vampire lore collides with the mundanities of the modern world. |
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| In this post-feminist era,isn't the verbal image of the cheeky chap pinching the bottom of the po-faced women's libber a little passe? |
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| But you won't get any of that at the Crucible this week, just po-faced, chinless wonders sipping mineral water. |
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| Po-faced officials yesterday stamped on attempts to table a Parliamentary motion congratulating the city on its 2008 success because of one word sarnie. |
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