Consequently, the comic talents often overcompensate for their low esteem by hungering after completelyhumourlessprojects to prove their seriousness.
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It is unnecessary,humourless, pompous, bossy and also rather sinister.
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Humourlessstatisticians have programmed countless computers, which have duly spewed out jargon and indecipherable algebraic equations.
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After all, it is all essentially window- dressing to appease the aforesaidhumourlessbureaucrats or the utopian fanatics.
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Fifteen years ago ahumourlessand intolerant permissiveness—if the phrase "intolerant permissiveness" is not a contradiction in terms—was in the ascendant.
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Politicians are indulging in ahumourlessguessing game as to what the price may be that he has in mind.
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Instead of their wit, style and grace, she indulged in sour,humourlesswhingeing.
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He lacked the skills at oratory of some of his contemporaries, and was often seen ashumourlessand uncharismatic.
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They concluded by writing that the episode ishumourless.
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She recalls that upon taking over the magazine she found it to be pretentious,humourless.
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Whilst the characters often forgot lines and used many corny andhumourlessjokes, the segment was much loved.
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He was often described as distant, unemotional, and ratherhumourless, though some colleagues contended otherwise.
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The students speculate on why he is leaving, but do not much care since despite being academically brilliant, he is generally despised as being strict, stern andhumourless.
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As they investigate, they find that everyone there is almost completelyhumourless, and that it has something to do with a small island just off the coast.
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His conversations were hideously detailed andhumourless.
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