You begin to wonder how his humorlessness will wear over time.
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It doesn't seem to occur to him that the surest invitation to mockery is humorlessness.
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Sontag was accused of humorlessness, but in fact she was guilty only of high-mindedness.
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When you do, some of his supporters will inevitably accuse you of humorlessness or pettiness.
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I felt similarly disappointed in my humorlessness now, in bed, where Misha lay unresponsive to stimuli.
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"The humorlessness and the lack of appreciation for irony and satire on the left is on full display here."
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There is such a quick assumption of ill will and an increasing sanctimony and humorlessness that can often seem inhumane.
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The fatal weakness in Hynkel, and in the officious SS men who spoil the fun in Lubitsch's Warsaw, is their humorlessness.
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From what I could decipher, Warcraft is would-be Tolkien rubbish, a mishmash of smarter, more expansive fantasy worlds that mistakes humorlessness for gravity.
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Berlant's lectures will both focus on the theme of humorlessness, one in the context of politics, the other in the context of comedy. 22007.
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One of Ephron's most beloved essay collections, subtitled "Some Things About Women," is a contrarian confrontation with the feminist revolution and its occasional humorlessness.
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For its part, "Mercies in Disguise" sometimes suffers from a general humorlessness and heavy-handed prose ("Now he felt for the first time the wallop of tragedy").
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When the president suggested that wildfires could be prevented by raking our forests, as he imagined the Finns did, these people showed that their reputation for humorlessness is wrong.
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" While expressing sympathy for the long-term goals of those advocating social change, he chastised them for what he called Orwellian humorlessness and euphemisms that threatened "the decay of language.
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I had no desire to add fragility or humorlessness to this list, two qualities routinely ascribed to women (yet far more bountiful in the wattled older men whose attentions I declined).
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Germany has generally not been known for exporting comedies — and, to outsiders, has a perhaps undeserved reputation for humorlessness — but "Toni Erdmann," which has been sold around the world, upends that.
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Cannibalism and murder are invoked, the n-word is tossed around (to refer to Hardy!), and the dark humorlessness of it all might feel claustrophobic, were it not for the show's star.
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A-list celebrities began embracing the word feminism—a significant shift after decades when feminists were little more than pop-culture punch lines, derided for their humorlessness, earnestness, and ideological single-mindedness.
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In a genre where easy classification is a virtue and humorlessness is the law, a band like The Black Dahlia Murder reminds us all why we became metalheads in the first place.
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They'd use the same mannered, lumpy humorlessness as a stand-in for depth, unaware that the key appeal of fast-living Ron Woodruff was how he reminded us a bit of the man playing him.
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SZALAI Giving it to Laszlo Krasznahorkai would go against Parul's totally spot-on observation about the adamant humorlessness of the committee (he's very gloomy and very funny), but I'd be delighted to see it happen, if only because it would inevitably expose otherwise reluctant readers to his brilliant, incantatory weirdness.
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In particular, anti-Trumpists might be a touch more effective if they could recognize how humorlessness and constant self-important dudgeon frequently helps the Trumpian cause, by setting up the dynamic I just sketched in my movie pitch — where the country is asked to choose between two kinds of folly, one squalid and corrupt but the other pompous, insufferable and paranoid in its own self-important way.
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The NFL's humorlessness and soaring grandiosity means that every week is talked about this way, which is why we get all those jarring and accidentally hilarious mismatches between tone and meaning throughout the season—a black-clad Carrie Underwood groaning "oh Sunday night" with church-y solemnity before every Sunday Night Football broadcast, right before two teams launch into a four-hour puntfight that ends in a 6-6 tie.
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On Since I Left You, The Avalanches possessed the capability to bring a tear to your eye just seconds after making you laugh out loud, the latter of which is important to keep in mind: it's extremely hard to make music that sounds funny—the 2010s inarguably being a decade in which humorlessness has reigned supreme in indie culture, particularly—but The Avalanches' sonic giggles felt effortless and breezy in a way that few musicians have achieved before or afterwards.
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In order to prevent the Communists taking over Overland, he and Turner took the subscriber lists and hid them.Murray-Smith, Indirections, p. 37. Murray-Smith was determined that Overland should "avoid the dreadful humorlessness and dogmatism of the fully convinced".Murray-Smith, Indirections, p. 39.
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Library Journal criticized the book's writing style and called it a "sophomoric, opinionated diatribe". Kirkus Reviews called it a "diatribe" and wrote that it failed due to "single-mindedness and humorlessness". The Wall Street Journal called Judge's argumentation "persuasive" but "incomplete", and pointed out inconsistencies in the book. Writing for Reason, Jesse Walker also found factual errors in Judge's work.
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Cast member David Spade regarded Seagal as the show's worst host during Spade's time there. Spade and co-star Tim Meadows cite Seagal's humorlessness, his ill- treatment of the show's cast and writers, and his refusal to do a "Hans and Franz" sketch because that skit's title characters stated that they could beat up Seagal. Seagal was never invited back to the show following that episode.Venable, Nick (October 29, 2015).
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" Others media publications were more critical of the show. Television critic Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that Stewart was more "amusing than funny". He added, "Many of his jokes fell flat with the stars in the Kodak Theatre, and his tendency to bow down before celebrities quickly grew tiresome." Tom Shales from The Washington Post commented, "It's hard to believe that professional entertainers could have put together a show less entertaining than this year's Oscars, hosted with a smug humorlessness by comic Jon Stewart, a sad and pale shadow of great hosts gone by.
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Allen Ginsberg, poet and father of the Beat Generation, was an affiliated member of NAMBLA. Claiming to have joined the organization "in defense of free speech", Ginsberg said: "Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance ... I'm a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too—everybody does, who has a little humanity". He appeared in Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys, produced and directed by Adi Sideman, a documentary in which members of NAMBLA were interviewed and presented defenses of the organization. Pat Califia argued that politics played an important role in the gay community's rejection of NAMBLA.
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