Word: humorless
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...choosing to be true to the words, he's made a movie by the numbers. Stopping to admire his film's production design (good work by Stuart Craig), he slows the action down; it's often stodgy, humorless. His reaction shots are clumsy; each gives you just one piece of narrative or emotional information at a time. That doesn't help the three young stars, on whose slim shoulders the whole project rests; they are competent but charisma-free. The film lacks moviemaking buoyancy--the feeling of soaring in space that Rowling's magic-carpet prose gives the reader...
...would be a bit humorless of us to deny this group that’s been around for 200 years because we were shocked it turns out to be a social organization...
...laughter were characteristic of the early "consciousness-raising" groups--but Ensler thinks we lost these values somewhere in the struggle to be taken seriously on equal pay, child care and the rest of the agenda. Conservative-media stereotyping has also hurt. Talk-show hosts have presented feminists as humorless man haters who believe all heterosexual sex is rape...
...Omen Clowns Internationalis encouraging its bulb-nosed members to consider "custard pie insurance" to guard against humorless, litigious audiences...
...again from 1985 to '87. "He thought he was mentally superior to his peers and probably his leadership," says Robert Bryant, former FBI assistant director. That subtle arrogance made him few friends there, and he was nicknamed Dr. Death for his sallow complexion, dark hair, black suits and humorless stare. Because he had no bedside manner, he was never sent out to recruit Soviet turncoats. "He had no people skills at all," says the former colleague, who wonders if the cruel nicknames helped set Hanssen on his traitorous course...