with a straight face

We cannot say the same with a straight face, without or without tentacle mouths.

For now, though, Republicans can say with a straight face that they’re simply beginning a process.

Those teams just have to sneak into the playoffs with 80-some wins — no owner can say with a straight face he cannot afford a team that can do that — and get hot in October.

"We won't be going to doctors," Honeycutt said with a straight face, "because we won't be sick."

“She has an unhealthy and possibly sexual obsession with him,” an aide to Sen. Mitch McConnell told me with a straight face.