| Secondly, we can see that nothing marks the conversation about race more than humorlessness and compulsion. |
| And doesn't their apparent humorlessness entitle us to laugh at them? |
| But it would be a mistake merely to view this as a tale of youthful earnestness, or humorlessness. |
| You could forgive Wolff for overlooking Powers' piece if he'd concretized the idea of liberal humorlessness with specific readings from the humorless left. |
| His opus ends up on top for the sheer indifference, cheapness, humorlessness, pointlessness, meanness, and ineptitude of the entire production. |
| Humor has given way to humorlessness, sarcasm to sanctimony, irony to invective. |
