6.Calling them humourless or militant, sanctimonious or annoying or hypocrites — all of these terms are just smokescreens for what it is that people really feel, which is fear.
7.Moving back and forth between storylines can also be disorienting, and Ms Shafak's penchant for using grand language for grand ideas can feel humourless and overwrought.
8.In the days after her story broke, Selene Nelson, the freelancer at the centre of the Waitrose magazine row, was called " humourless" , " combative" and " militant" .