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- noun The
state ,quality , orcondition of lackinghumor .
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Examples
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There is a certain humorlessness in your post and others like it that is garden variety insane.
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"Adapted from William Saroyan's The Laughing Matter, The Banishment's humorlessness is matched only by its bloated self-importance; every take clearly ended with the instruction 'Let's try that again, but with more brooding this time,'" sighs Mike D'Angelo at ScreenGrab over this Competition entry.
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Fans of overheated melodrama, dorm-room philosophizing, relentless humorlessness, sex-as-rape, and crude science fiction--is that everybody?
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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I thought it was similarly obvious that Mel Brooks and Abe Foxman occupy opposite ends of the tribal spectrum as far as humorlessness goes.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latest Mohammed Cartoon Controversy, this Time in South Africa 2010
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Fans of overheated melodrama, dorm-room philosophizing, relentless humorlessness, sex-as-rape, and crude science fiction--is that everybody?
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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Picking up on my thoughts about humor, it is the exposed, self-ridiculing and self-undermining character of these forms of protest that I find most compelling as opposed to the pious humorlessness of most forms of vanguardist active nihilism and some forms of contemporary protest I name no names.
Benjamin Shepard: In Defense of the Silly: From Direct Action to the Pies of March Benjamin Shepard 2011
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Fans of overheated melodrama, dorm-room philosophizing, relentless humorlessness, sex-as-rape, and crude science fiction--is that everybody?
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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Picking up on my thoughts about humor, it is the exposed, self-ridiculing and self-undermining character of these forms of protest that I find most compelling as opposed to the pious humorlessness of most forms of vanguardist active nihilism and some forms of contemporary protest I name no names.
Benjamin Shepard: In Defense of the Silly: From Direct Action to the Pies of March Benjamin Shepard 2011
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Fans of overheated melodrama, dorm-room philosophizing, relentless humorlessness, sex-as-rape, and crude science fiction--is that everybody?
Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011
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Picking up on my thoughts about humor, it is the exposed, self-ridiculing and self-undermining character of these forms of protest that I find most compelling as opposed to the pious humorlessness of most forms of vanguardist active nihilism and some forms of contemporary protest I name no names.
Benjamin Shepard: In Defense of the Silly: From Direct Action to the Pies of March Benjamin Shepard 2011
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