Along with The Wrong Man, Vertigo is Hitchcock's most humorless movie, and the music sustains its uncompromising seriousness.
In contrast, "Passion" is intentionally humorless, although the first duet between Giorgio and Clara definitely contains an ironic foreshadowing.
The clever idea of giving Santa a family and a Rosebud-like backstory turned into this noisy, bloated, humorless comedy.
The film may be humorless, unflustered by the need to quicken or amuse, but it feels unfashionably true to itself.
This is not the bold, humorless laugh of the triumphant atheist, who conquers what he calls death and his own fear of it.
Mr. Kurzweil's frank efforts to outwit death have earned him an exaggerated reputation for solemnity, even caused some to portray him as a humorless obsessive.
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"The Mist" is far from perfect, and it's woefully humorless.
Steve Hannah, the website's chief executive, apologised to the best actress nominee, saying that "no person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire".
Rickman and Hoffman recognize the tale for the rich, exotic nonsense that it is and offer ripe performances to match unlike Whishaw, whose sniffing intensity turns the young devil into something of a humorless bore.
Long, low and wide, with a hood that can be measured in furlongs, the M6 has foot-wide rear tires, heroic brakes (love the blue calipers) and a cruel, humorless, inscrutable face, like Iron Man with a kidney stone.
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