humorless people who can't see the lighter side of life
Recent Examples on the WebAnyone who believes that radical politics have to be stern and humorless, for maximum impact, should consult Byron.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024 Her style, though largely humorless, is fluent and sharply focused, with paragraphs that flow at the brisk pace of an adventure novel.—Guy Denton, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024 His long-suffering companion, Jack Dunphy, is a humorless scold.—Mike Hale, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024 In today’s mostly humorless world, there are too few top-of-the-line satirists.—Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2024 Although Mitchell and Thompson are sharing the screen in no time, the audience hardly gets a chance to appreciate their chemistry before tedious new characters are introduced and the film nosedives into a convoluted and humorless plot.—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023 Adam McKay’s atrocious Don’t Look Up was humorless about its climate-change heroes (except when Meryl Streep got her just deserts).—Armond White, National Review, 6 Oct. 2023 Here — sneakily, playfully, like a kid planting a whoopee cushion on a humorless teacher’s chair — is where the boredom comes in.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2023 If the narrow, intimate streets of SoHo enhanced its bohemian aura, Chelsea, in turn, was vast, humorless and, in the words of several dealers, ugly.—Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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