Humorlessness

"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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There is a certain humorlessness in your post and others like it that is garden variety insane. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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 (2011)

Fans of overheated melodrama, dorm-room philosophizing, relentless humorlessness, sex-as-rape, and crude science fiction--is that everybody? ❋ Ellis Weiner (2011)

This indicates humorlessness on the part of right-ideologues, not liberals. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I thought it was similarly obvious that Mel Brooks and Abe Foxman occupy opposite ends of the tribal spectrum as far as humorlessness goes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Critics of anti-racist activists will then, inevitably, talk about humorlessness and taking oneself too seriously, and sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, etc. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The firm is known in the Valley for a certain humorlessness and a willingness to play hardball. ❋ David Kirkpatrick (2010)

Granddad played golf with fierce concentration, complete humorlessness, as a perfectionist, and with mixed results. ❋ David Eisenhower (2010)

It happens sometimes, an unappealing woman gets hold of a wolf, and she keeps him by virtue of her cruelty, her humorlessness, and her inability to be charmed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There seems to be a overabundance of humorlessness in the comments today. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2010)

It's a billowy showpiece that embodies everything wrong with 21st-century rock music: the joyless grandiosity, the air-sucking humorlessness, the soggy sentimentality, all those fussy string arrangements. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Frasier] - So I posted the joke about the priest, [the plumber], and the stripper on Facebook, and Maris' best friend called me a sexist, racist moron. [Niles] - Wow, what a humorless receptacle. ❋ Res Gibson (2011)