po-faced

It's the very antithesis of po-faced dining rooms: joyful, irreverent, verging on fantastical.

10 of the best restaurants for new Catalan cuisine 2011

Magical, funny, wholly lacking in po-faced piety, the movie incorporates elements of Irish mythology and is drawn in a flat, stylised fashion that derives from the art of the time.

The Secret of Kells Philip French 2010

Even on our own turf, we can find ourselves getting overly po-faced.

Is it OK to laugh at Ibsen? Mark Fisher 2010

So the real show gets publicity, Val gets to knock out another crime caper, and cynics such as me get to enjoy her poking fun at the very pomposities of such worthy well-intentioned po-faced series – the lottery corruption, the true chances of a "performing arts centre" ever reinvigorating a broken northern pit town, etc.

Rewind radio: D for Discretion; Old Grey Whistle Test 40; Village SOS – review 2011

No; in Labour, box-ticking, Britain the response is a po-faced "We take the sale of alcohol to underage people extremely seriously."

The UK's box-ticking culture Not a sheep 2009

In a flood of wordplay and some tremendously corny jokes (at one point, Luka navigates three treacherous river eddies, known as Nelson, Duane and Fisher), he also explores the complex and changing contours of father-son relationships and the spectre of a world policed by po-faced critics (one set of villains are called the Learned Ones) or entirely denuded of storytelling.

Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review Alex Clark 2010

There has been something of a po-faced flap at some US media outlets about this weekend's rallies in Washington arranged by TV news satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

How to cover satirical political events - chuckle in a non-genuine manner Roy Greenslade 2010

Formula One is a notoriously po-faced sport but Sebastian Vettel – a fan of Monty Python and Little Britain – was not too distracted by the task of trying to win Sunday's Chinese grand prix to be amused by the sight of an absent-minded Jenson Button driving his McLaren into the Red Bull pit, just as Vettel himself was attempting to make a tyre stop.

Elegance of George Eastham embellished Stoke City's neutral appeal | Richard Williams 2011

Pontevedro, in Giles Havergal's enticingly louche production, is one of those po-faced principalities whose chief characteristic is taking itself just a little too seriously.

The Merry Widow – review Alfred Hickling 2010

Snappy idea by the BBC, shortly after it started its slightly worthy po-faced TV series Village SOS, to ask crime novelist Val McDermid to write a series with exactly the same title, run through the week during Woman's Hour, which featured the same small-town prides and sensibilities but also, crucially, a murder.

Rewind radio: D for Discretion; Old Grey Whistle Test 40; Village SOS – review 2011