humorless

1 Most of all I liked that shot of Michael walking away from the camera towards an uncertain future in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and her humorless mom.

2 Yet the real problem with these roasts is not that they have crossed some final line of propriety, orr even that they are mostly humorless.

3 Most corporations, on the other hand, only know how to talk in the soothing, humorless monotone of the mission statement, marketing brochure, and your-call-is-important-to-us busy signal.

另一方面，大部分企业，只知道如何以安抚的、一本正经的单调方式来与人交谈，他们只有目标宣言、营销小册子，以及“你的来电对我们很重要”之类的托辞。

4 In this episode, the humorless Sylvester jokes that he might be able to give Madam of Mayhem Maeve a better sense of humor about her doomed situation.

5 People either found this very charming or, if they happened to be humorless, rude.

6 But these passages are fleeting and too few; "The Japanese Lover" is a humorless and earthbound disappointment.

7 Her style, though largely humorless, is fluent and sharply focused, with paragraphs that flow at the brisk pace of an adventure novel.

8 The government has been creating cartoon characters since at least World War II, when it commissioned a humorless Smokey Bear to admonish the public about forest-fire risk.

9 Nearly every course began with a clunky, humorless history lesson about steakhouses, appetizing stores, clambakes, cheesecakes and even Times Square scam artists.

10 The movie, filled with rainbows — and tension over some of the more poisonous and humorless elements of adult life — is a bit like that explosion.

11 He is brutal on Tiger Woods, whom he found detached and humorless, and on pro football, which he finds too corporate.

12 Or: “The humorless will just have to deal with their own feelings.”

13 Strong emotions — desperation, dread, desire — are indicated but not really communicated, and everything happens in a hazy atmosphere of humorless homage and exquisite good taste.

14 This book is humorless, indifferent, close to unendurable, a word pudding seemingly written on autopilot.

15 He pictured himself like a defendant in a movie court-martial, interrogated by three humorless inquisitors about suspicious acquaintances he barely remembered.

16 Now, in case you think I'm just being a humorless prig -- and I may be!

17 The Adventures of Gerard was a humorless costume adventure that seemed beyond his grasp.

18 So why exactly are some of the funniest people in the country supporting the most humorless candidate?

19 Except ... that nobody involved in this enterprise, other than a seemingly humorless academic who doesn’t quite seem in on the joke, thinks there was anything more to disco than that relentless beat.

20 In “Photograph 51,” the word on Franklin among her fellow scientists — all male, needless to say — is that she is exacting, humorless, brilliant and disciplined to the point of rigidity.

1 拘谨的

stuffy starchy stilted prissy starched chary

2 乏味的

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3 不风趣的

inhumorous

4 不幽默

inhumorous inhumorously

5 不风趣

inhumorous inhumorously humorlessly humorlessness

6 拘谨

stuffy starchy stilted prissy starched chary frigidly reserve starch

7 不幽默的

inhumorous

8 乏味

noplaceville icky-poo unshoed dead-alive slow stupid fade boring bare pedestrian literal blah pathetic prose watery barren soggy stuffy innocuous sickly boneless uninteresting uninspired icky moldy prosaic matter-of-fact insipid unimaginative humdrum stodgy naff ho-hum unexciting unglamorous washy wearisome prosy unpoetic pukey drack milk-and-water heavy vapidity milk and water