It looks funny, but its geometric formations are choreographed with dead seriousness.

In Philadelphia a row house is described and pictured in the newspapers, with dead seriousness, as a "model home."

But he wore an expression of dead seriousness that changed to one of surprise when he saw Austin.

"I smell cheeseburgers," she said with a dead seriousness.

But I am astonished at any containment even though with dead seriousness I predicted it in the section just above.

Torre's face went from almost bemusement at the sign to one of dead seriousness.

It was executed in either dead seriousness or perfect deadpan.

Mike had asked the question in dead seriousness and it was returned the same way.

Karen laughed at the dead seriousness with which Miyuki had spoken these last words.

All he could read was her dead seriousness.