Consequently, the comic talents often overcompensate for their low esteem by hungering after completely humourless projects to prove their seriousness.
It is unnecessary, humourless, pompous, bossy and also rather sinister.
Humourless statisticians have programmed countless computers, which have duly spewed out jargon and indecipherable algebraic equations.
After all, it is all essentially window- dressing to appease the aforesaid humourless bureaucrats or the utopian fanatics.
Fifteen years ago a humourless and intolerant permissiveness—if the phrase "intolerant permissiveness" is not a contradiction in terms—was in the ascendant.
Politicians are indulging in a humourless guessing game as to what the price may be that he has in mind.
Instead of their wit, style and grace, she indulged in sour, humourless whingeing.
He lacked the skills at oratory of some of his contemporaries, and was often seen as humourless and uncharismatic.
