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And also I've just got tired of the group being viewed as this humourless ... thing.
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As the stags go play they sustain this tone, especially in the humourless hauteur of Graham Fellows's excellent Tybalt.
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Despite grisly episodes such as these, Franz's career was not entirely humourless .
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Despite his wonderfully unattractive and humourless appearance, his exotic origins none the less gave rise to an extraordinary rumour.
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Her personality was drab, earnest and humourless and her appearance calculatedly unattractive.
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It was a wide, manic and utterly humourless rictus.
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Monk treats Russell's sallies with humourless seriousness, trying to get us to see them as proof of intellectual irresponsibility.
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Silent, humourless and reserved, Haig was also shrewd and ambitious and had unbounded self-esteem.