Word: humorlessly
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...many 'Poonsters by editors of The Harvard Crimson. The Crimeds left the members of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, bloodied and dazed on the Cambridge Common softball field. The reaction of the 'Poonsters was humorless, as always...
...favorite is the autobiography of Lana Turner, published some years ago. It is a strangely affecting work - eerily clueless and humorless - in which a certain southern California/film noir/'40s bleakness persuades the reader, after a hundred pages, that in a former life, Lana Turner and Richard Nixon may have been the same person. It is a spooky experience...
...publishing phenomenons of the 1990s. It has sold 4 million copies worldwide to date and been published in 30 countries. A very funny account of the minor woes and epiphanies of a 30-ish single woman living in London, it spawned a host of pale imitations and a humorless debate about Bridget's supposedly debilitating effect on the progress of women. (My two cents: Fielding is a wonderful comic novelist who obviously struck some vein of truth. To condemn Bridget for being a more pathetic version of the rest of us is to miss the point...