Word: humorless
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...tall, bald and humorless President White opened the meeting, he announced that a stockholder had obtained a court injunction that prevented him from holding the meeting. Reason for the suit: Textron had not had enough time to get its plan before the American Woolen stockholders. Up jumped Lewis D. Gilbert, who makes a career of attending stockholders' meetings, to protest adjourning "this meeting without the approval of stockholders." Replied White: "But I'm the defendant. I am not permitted to go on with the meeting." In the confusion of other protests, Lawyer Robert H. Montgomery, company clerk, recognized...
...because Boswell is frank in his conceit and self-evaluations, however, that his journals are a pleasure to road. Humorless, ambitious, stuffy, he wrote down what everyone occasionally thinks. This evidence cannot be used against him by the reader. Though one laughs at Boswell, one cannot but feel a sympathetic bond with him ever almost two hundred years...
Studio One opened its sixth TV season last week by boldly offering an hour of utter despair. A grim, gruesome, humorless show, it was television at its best. The teleplay: George Orwell's bitter satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Mrs. Orwell released to Studio One only after assurances that there would be no tampering with her late husband's blueprint of the ultimate police state...
...Thomas Merton," as Father Graham sees him, "belongs to the class of writers-intense, one-sided, humorless, propagandist, morally indignant-whose work falls outside the normal canons of criticism . . . Having conceived for himself a sublime ideal, he has heroically given it effect . . . There can be no withholding tribute to the earnestness of his convictions...
...record; he asked that it be on so that he might write a fair complete, constructive article, I agreed. In the course of my monologue, I said that thought it seemed inconceivable and illiberal, the Germans whom I had met at the Seminar struck me as unpleasant, stiff, humorless people; and that this, with other things I saw and heard during my trip, convinced me that Germany is an exceedingly dangerous nation. Mr. Amfitheatrof reshaped what I said, which just now I will defend against anyone, into quotation that his caused such distress...