| 单词 | humourless |
| 例句 | The fear of seriousness, and the assumption that seriousness is necessarily humourless, has to be overcome. Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z He can be clever and engaged and funny and humane – or smug, humourless, and cold to the point of cruel. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z Still, the host of Izzard and Mittermeier's Berlin show, Thomas Hermanns, the director of Berlin's popular Quatsch Comedy Club, cannot resist referring to the "humourless German" reputation before the comics take to the stage. Comedy without borders: Eddie Izzard and the language of standup 2013-04-24T11:00:05Z Filmed for a week, and judged by a humourless ex-traffic cop, the better driver gets their own car, while the other gets more lessons. TV highlights 02/04/2013 2013-04-02T06:00:05Z The really annoying thing about Guttenplan is that he doesn't appear to be some kind of humourless geek freak with no social skills. University Challenge | TV Review 2010-04-06T05:45:00Z Although Neverbend is humourless, for the reader there is humour, and also pathos, in the clash of his high-flown rhetoric with the instinctive reactions of others, including his own family. David Lodge: rereading Anthony Trollope 2012-12-14T22:55:04Z After the episode aired, he tweeted dictiontary definitions for "joke", "humourless" , "lighthearted" and "misunderstand". Adam Levine forced to defend 'anti-American' comment on The Voice 2013-05-30T10:33:19Z She provides a strong contrast to her sanctimonious, humourless sister Mary, who spouts empty platitudes about acceptable female conduct. Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic 2013-01-26T08:01:00Z He was supposedly there to give Bond a hard and gritty new seriousness, but always just looked a bit humourless. James Bond on film – ranked! 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z It's a sentimentalised and weirdly humourless movie — targeted at the middle-aged at heart — in which the rock scene is celebrated as a world where the descending model of Stonehenge is always the right size. Rock of Ages – review 2012-06-14T20:15:03Z Sneering at politicians should not simply be waved through on a permanent tide of approbation in which those who are troubled by aspects of the fashion are dismissed as conservative or, even worse, humourless. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z I wouldn't say she was humourless, but she wasn't wacky – a pretty serious person. Steve Carell: My family values 2013-06-28T11:59:01Z Supported by Norman Bowman's humourless but oddly charismatic Mack and Stuart Matthew Price's kindly Capra, she almost makes the case for Mack and Mabel's continued existence. Mack and Mabel – review 2012-07-13T14:38:35Z Women who complain are identified as “difficult” or “humourless” or, in your case, “delicate”, so the anger and pain is muffled. A drunk colleague called me a slut. What should I do? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He's far from humourless, but committed to his music to the point of tunnel vision. Blake's progress 2011-01-22T00:05:04Z What was once the humorous stance of Private Eye has become the humourless stance of the entire press. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z Though the community centre has a central role in Portlandia – as a fictional feminist bookshop run by two humourless ideologues – it has a real mission in the community. Portland, the US capital of alternative cool, takes TV parody in good humour 2012-02-11T16:28:31Z Politicians and officials, even humourless Mrs T, loved this show. TV review: Yes, Prime Minister 2012-11-27T00:46:12Z Yes, it's crude – but generous-spirited, and liable to upset only the extremely sensitive, or extremely humourless. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z Perhaps the film got changed somewhere along the line, comprehensively rejigged as a humourless fantasy action adventure. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – review 2013-02-28T15:29:01Z This film is joyless, passionless, humourless, incurious about real people's real lives. The Smell of Us review: Larry Clark's passionless voyeur flick 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Of all the people for an up-and-coming stand-up to share the same name with, the notably humourless lead singer of Coldplay is one of the most unfortunate. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-29T00:06:19Z "This is event television, sumptuous, intelligent, and serious, meticulous in detail but not humourless or po-face," wrote Sam Wollaston in the Guardian. Critics hail Wolf Hall's TV debut 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The exercise feels like a parody of being an art critic, for these are humourless parodies of paintings. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks One Summer – review 2012-05-22T15:13:15Z Often, however, the results are derivative, soulless and humourless. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z The novel takes place in deserts, wastepaper baskets, the dreams of sleeping Japanese women and the apartment of a singularly humourless, moping, heartbroken writer. What travel writers are reading right now 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Vanished Yearsby Rupert Everett But I'm not sure how much he really cares, and to my mind you'd have to be even more humourless than Madonna to hold anything against him. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z Loosely based on a Spanish play by Juan Mayorga called The Boy in the Last Row, it's set in a secondary school in an unidentified French town where the intense, prissy, humourless Germain teaches literature. In the House – review 2013-03-31T00:07:00Z An interviewer asked me live on air whether it was difficult having no friends because I was so humourless. What I have learned from five years of Everyday Sexism 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Pompous, vain, self-satisfied, humourless, he speaks as if from a mountaintop, and refuses to compromise with real life, even in a time of war. Westwood by Stella Gibbons 2011-07-29T21:53:01Z Her reputation has always been difficult: arrogant, maddeningly theoretical at times, a tad humourless. Catherine Breillat: 'I love blood. It's in all my films' 2010-07-15T21:04:00Z All of which makes for an unapologetically old-fashioned, beautifully shot, thunderingly unsubtle melodrama that falls somewhere between diverting twaddle and humourless hoopla. The Making Of A Lady is preposterous and proud of it 2012-12-15T00:05:00Z Charmless, humourless and shoddily made Michael is the brave child prisoner of an unnoticed monster in Austria. Open thread: what are the most overrated films? 2012-06-08T14:46:11Z The worst that they would be called is humourless. Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Read More Philip French said: In The Fog is a deeply serious, utterly humourless story of social and spiritual conflict of the kind we encounter in the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. What films have you seen recently? 2013-04-29T14:38:43Z Poor old Jet Li is mightily dissed with loads of "Chinese people are short" jokes in this lumbering, humourless film, and he never gets to win a single punch-up. Film review: The Expendables 2010-08-19T21:40:00Z Today’s male thriller heroes are, almost without exception, humourless bores. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z A person you thought humourless might show you their silly, goofy side; or maybe a colleague you pegged as vapid and one-dimensional is actually just shy and quite deep. Ask Molly Ringwald: do I have to go for drinks with work colleagues? 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Or maybe I'm the one being humourless and it was a joke? The Queen's jubilee should be a time of rejoicing for our spoilsports 2012-06-02T23:05:41Z This is an approach that might improve any number of boring and humourless movies made by westerners about India. Bollywood goes west in Kites, but now let's swap 2010-05-14T23:39:00Z And Rupert and Robin are shocked to discover that both he and the enigmatic but humourless Vivian carry flick knives "in case we need to defend ourselves". This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson | Book review 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z “It’s a very difficult thing to resist or challenge without looking like the stereotypical humourless feminist,” said Benwell. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Despite his literary pretensions, his autobiography – written with the humourless braggadocio of Donald Trump – does little to flesh out those indecipherable stains. Hugh Hefner in six volumes 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z There's no fun in this humourless picture, no revealing connections made between the two genres so forcibly yoked together. Cowboys & Aliens ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:27Z In the days after her story broke, Selene Nelson, the freelancer at the centre of the Waitrose magazine row, was called “humourless”, “combative” and “militant”. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z We always knew religious fundamentalists were humourless but who knew they were so thin-skinned. In Egypt, satire can't just be a laughing matter 2013-04-10T15:50:26Z Or is this deeply serious actor just being a good sport and allowing his natural or even humourless solemnity to be used for ironic purposes? Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z It gave me the chance to laugh at a situation that was humourless in real life. The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z "Part of the consideration was refusing to yield to this idea that everything must be sober and humourless to be authentic at all," says Greaves. The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z TV Line's Dave Nemetz concurred, calling the ceremony "a sluggish, humourless mix of overly long speeches and endless pats on the back". Oscars 2021: 'Sluggish' ceremony leaves critics cold 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z He may be empathetic and dogged but mostly he’s dour, humourless, dyspeptic, antisocial. Maj Sjöwall, master of Nordic noir, dies at 84 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z The woke, somewhat humourless and very entitled Harry we see before us now is almost unrecognisable as the rumbustious fellow we knew and loved. 'Two most spoiled brats in history': pundits furious over Harry and Meghan's step back 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z His characters were bellicose, humourless, single-minded and angry as they burst out of saw-toothed panels and widescreen spreads. Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z So it is with regret that I must embrace my identity as a humourless homosexual and explain, in a not-so-hot take, why this story is problematic. Lesbianism gets people’s attention – but I wish Mel B had kept stumm 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z But for some reason, variety hasn’t encouraged pluralism, and what we see instead is a battle over orthodoxies that is humourless by definition. Feminism with no human warmth leaves me cold | Zoe Williams 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z While the film is full of amusing moments, Captain Marvel herself is almost entirely humourless. Captain Marvel 'is no Black Panther' 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The resulting film was not considered a success, with one critic dismissing it as "a shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess" and another dubbing it "a confused, humourless grind." Terminator teases sixth instalment 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Part of the shtick of the ascendant hard right is to portray the left as humourless, easily triggered snowflakes who hate freedom of expression. The Trump baby blimp is a perfect riposte to the snowflake right | Owen Jones 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z We were presented, at the beginning, with a self-proclaimed “humourless, brain-numbing deep dive into climate science”. California burning: life among the wildfires 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z By all accounts a reserved and slightly humourless man, he rose through the ranks and became an area commander in 2004. How many murders can a police informer get away with? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The Bear of Very Little Brain is used in China as code for the portly Mr Xi—the post was swiftly deleted by humourless censors. Xi Jinping decides to abolish presidential term limits 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The culture was being hijacked by college students, humourless young people who knew nothing of real life, its paradoxes and disappointments. Reckoning with a culture of male resentment 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps, under pain of calamitous “overreaction” from those legions of humourless millennials, it will be from now on. For some men, rape just isn’t a big deal | Emma Brockes 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z And it doesn’t make us ‘humourless’ to say so. Michael Gove apologises for 'clumsy' Harvey Weinstein joke 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z Have you heard the joke about the humourless office worker who went for a promotion? Is humour the way to keep an office happy? - BBC News 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Afyer all, there is no more humourless or snowflakey entity on earth than a certain stripe of football fan when his own side is teased. The joshing, the slap-joke, the fallout: the Great Moyes Debate has begun | Marina Hyde 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z The slur of being humourless is something both fashion and feminism are touchy about. This is what a feminist T-shirt looks like 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z The left has often been caricatured as humourless, often by those passive-aggressive types whose refrain is “can’t you take a joke?” Satire won’t rid us of Trump, but it will make us feel better | Anne Karpf 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z "Dear humourless Malaysia. Free the Budgie Nine," a front page headline said. Aussies accused of premediated brief display at Malaysia F1 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z “Dear humourless Malaysia. Free the Budgie Nine,” a front page headline said. Aussies accused of premediated brief display at Malaysia F1 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Making the comments after a meeting in Moscow, Berlusconi said that those who disagreed with his description were humourless “imbeciles”, adding: “How can you take such a great compliment negatively?” Undiplomatic language: five of the worst geopolitical insults 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The Goop sex woman is, it appears, a rich, humourless, vegan neurotic, for whom successful consensual sex is just another hoop to jump through on the road to “total wellbeing”. The joylessness of Goop sex | Flic Everett 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z If the language was sometimes humourless or rotely Marxist, the effort to make art matter in the world could produce incandescent results. Conceptual art: why a bag of rubbish is not just a load of garbage 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Dean Burnett isn’t normally this humourless, but he has been quite tired lately. Why April Fools' day is utter crap | Dean Burnett 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z But Crowe’s public persona, noisy and humourless and strutting, is forever making rude gestures in the corner of my eye, demanding attention and cursing those who give it. 'A certain sort of maleness': Helen Garner on a week spent watching Russell Crowe films 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Her emails were too good: all written in the same carefully casual, slightly humourless style. With love from my robot: virtual assistants may secretly be emailing you 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Say you met a wise man on your travels and people will immediately picture an elderly, humourless sage living in a cave. A Point of View: Is there any such thing as a wise person? - BBC News 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Twitter became a humourless, bitter place where no joke or idea survived first contact with a barrage of hate. A New Year resolution: let’s be less angry online | Rupert Myers 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z But he was far from the humourless caricature that voters read about in some papers. 2015 political review: Labour divisions follow election defeat - BBC News 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z My mother was no longer the dictatorial, humourless person I’d thought she was, and I was no longer the unruly, naughty, disruptive know-it-all I always thought I was. A Polaroid camera transformed my relationship with my mother | Shazia Mirza 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z So, there is a defensive attempt to undercut it by painting feminists as wailing whingers crying about nothing, or humourless harpies attacking innocent men. Feminism isn’t dead, despite all the assassination attempts | Laura Bates 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z He recalls presenting the programme in the mid-1960s and describes it at that time as little more than a "15-minute humourless dirge". Today in Parliament at 70: Britain's 'longest-running soap opera' - BBC News 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z Twitter became a humourless, bitter place where no joke or idea survived first contact with a barrage of hate The election didn’t help. A New Year resolution: let’s be less angry online | Rupert Myers 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z But that does not mean he is boring or humourless, or that Wiggins is always a barrel of laughs. Why doesn't Britain love Froome? 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Critics have described it as a "vanity project" and "humourless and sedate". Artist Douglas Gordon damages theatre in axe attack - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z She continues: "Which helps what? A bunch of humourless mad cows, that's what." Newspapers headlines: Snowden leak spies moved and Britain's 'feeble' military - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Reading her letters and diaries recently in the London Library, I discovered a more playful side to the modernist writer, who we have come to think of as stern, humourless, even tortured. The Joyful, Gossipy and Absurd Private Life of Virginia Woolf 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z They mock these humourless extremists but not the Prophet. ‘Charlie Hebdo, Before the Massacre’ 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z There can, occasionally, be something flat and humourless abut Flynn's writing, the sharpness turning sour with a sense that she despises the people she's writing about. The Gone Girl phenomenon: Gillian Flynn speaks out 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The Guardian, meanwhile, described it as a "humourless and sedate Red Riding Hood retelling" that "takes itself very seriously" and is "so old-fashioned you wonder if Gordon has any familiarity at all with contemporary theatre". Artist Douglas Gordon damages theatre in axe attack - BBC News 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But some commentators on social media dismissed the tone of the row as "humourless". India star's 'police dance' slammed 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Political correctness as humourless language policing is an idea so normalised that blatantly racist, sexist, ableist and homophobic slurs can be protected under the rubric of free speech. Gary Oldman showed how far 'anti-PC brigade' sentiment has come 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Now, that is no doubt all very exciting for texting tweenagers, and I don't want to come across here as a linguistically conservative, humourless and miserable curmudgeon. Adults who use emoji should grow up 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z On the right side the responses came much faster, they were dry, humourless, longer, a bit dull and flat. Turing test: this little Eugene Goostman was much brighter than I imagined 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z It's all quite impressive, especially when she dangles from a metal prism while the triangular video screens broadcast Death Star-like images during ET, but it's also pretty much humourless and Perry is lost without humour. Katy Perry review – Stern Katy and Sensitive Katy fit her like a lead boot 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z He dismissed anyone who did not think that this was funny as a "humourless imbecile". 'Orangutan' slur highlights open racism in Italian politics 2013-07-15T18:12:41Z Reading “The Great Deformation” is like being yelled at by a humourless and rather fanatical street-corner preacher brandishing a well-thumbed thesaurus. Capitalism in America: About turn 2013-05-30T15:02:23Z The Azeri government is seen by critics as not only humourless but also nervous. Azerbaijan's crackdown on dissent 2013-05-29T02:32:01Z Because of its position at the top, Apple should have the grace to not trash its competitors, especially when the digs are humourless and further weakened by error. Apple is losing the war – of words 2013-03-18T14:47:44Z At times he seems a mite forlorn, but in an increasingly toxic and humourless football world, an hour in Bullard's company is great therapy. Artful dodger Jimmy Bullard dreaming of a new role in football 2012-10-13T21:30:01Z He was sent home by the humourless Belgian Olympic Committee on Thursday. London 2012: Carnage as Olympians have their first drink in four years 2012-08-09T13:12:00Z However the branded the film, released in the UK on 20 July, "humourless" and "overlong". The Dark Knight Rises wins praise 2012-07-17T10:07:43Z The ultimate editor, the filter between you and your reader, is humourless and passionless. The media has two tribes, but there's only one winner 2012-07-15T18:45:00Z He also dismisses what he calls “humourless reactions from the politically correct.” German Town Has 'Easy' Parking Spots for Women 2012-07-13T08:35:23Z Women are often frightened to use humour and can come across as austere and humourless. Why women's jokes fall flat in the boardroom 2012-05-19T23:06:30Z It would be owlishly humourless, uncritical, not to take Tolstoy seriously. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z This crude, humourless vanity cannot be destined to win the world. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Would there be tearful managers handing over the keys of airports, power stations and the Guinness museum to humourless grey-suited men and women of no nationality? Tea, biscuit and a bailout 2011-06-08T01:47:38Z Trott is neither humourless nor judgmental of the joyous outpouring that has enveloped so many England fans. Jonathan Trott: 'What we achieved might only hit me when I've retired' 2011-01-11T00:06:00Z They did what they needed but it was a grey and humourless performance. Bell stars as England ease to victory 2010-07-08T22:09:00Z If you want to chuckle at humourless Barcelona fans, then Barney Ronay's tongue-in-cheek blog is probably the best place to visit. The Fiver 2010-05-24T15:27:00Z Don't make jokes about blowing up British airports on Twitter, because they're quite "humourless" about that in the UK. Monday link dump: Thinking about tomorrow 2010-05-18T00:15:00Z His serious and humourless facade on the racecourse concealed a party-loving, practical joker with a talent for mimicry, including a fine repertoire of trainer impressions. Greville Starkey obituary 2010-04-15T18:07:00Z Having done so, he spoke with a deliberate and humourless sincerity. The Tempering But we know that the Evil One came at last, the grim humourless spectre who loves not beauty, and is not of this world. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Their ardent and humourless democracy detected in him no taint of the patronizing or supercilious, and if he was new to the backwoods, he paid his arrears of knowledge with the ready coin of eagerness. The Roof Tree The joke is entirely on woman—poor, derided, deluded, down-trodden, humourless woman! The Gay Rebellion Knight appealed to and encouraged it often, for he could not have lived with a humourless woman, no matter how sweet. The Second Latchkey But the eyes of the young mountaineer held the sombreness of his humourless race. The Tempering That she possessed any sense of humour was in itself one of those human miracles which metaphysicians are always pothering over without arriving anywhere; for her previous environment had been particularly humourless. The Ragged Edge There are all kinds, mostly the seriously inspired and humourless variety who makes a mystic religion of a very respectable profession. The Common Law The Pisistratidze must have been humourless if they did not see that the poet smiled as he composed Nestor's speeches, glorifying old deeds of his own and old ways of fighting. Homer and His Age Even the Home Secretary, a severe, humourless, legal gentleman, cackled. The Lost Naval Papers The early readings are also worth notice, because they partially explain, by their occasionally fantastic and humourless character, the lack of early and general recognition of the poet's genius. Alfred Tennyson A strange popular leader-a leader purely by virtue of intellect; colourless, humourless, uncompromising and detached, without picturesque idiosyncrasies-but with the power of explaining profound ideas in simple terms, of analysing a concrete situation. Ten Days That Shook the World And so egoistic in his judgment is the average man that he is apt to suspect of being humourless any one whose sense of humour squares not with his own. Yet Again |
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