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humorless people who can't see the lighter side of life
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Worst of all, Phillips has intentionally or unintentionally created a bizarro, humorless version of My Cousin Vinny.
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Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
The Shoshone and Paiute characters, meanwhile, are solemnly noble or dangerously impassioned but invariably humorless.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
All this alarm and losing has made Democratic politics a rather miserable and humorless endeavor.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
But the finished product feels relatively humorless, leaving the cast looking silly in scenes that might conceivably have flown if played as deadpan comedy — not a tenor achieved or seemingly even aimed for here.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
The Shoshone and Paiute characters, meanwhile, are solemnly noble or dangerously impassioned but invariably humorless.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
All this alarm and losing has made Democratic politics a rather miserable and humorless endeavor.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2025
But the finished product feels relatively humorless, leaving the cast looking silly in scenes that might conceivably have flown if played as deadpan comedy — not a tenor achieved or seemingly even aimed for here.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Humorless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humorless. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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