9.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.
10.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" .
11.Unless you think the engineers are just brutal bullies, lacking any sense of humor -- : This was last year's Christmas greeting from Boston Dynamics, even if their robots aren't laughing all the way.
12.It doesn't bother me that a certain number of readers will not be amused; I know that a fair chunk of the population has no sense of humor—no idea that there are people in the world trying to entertain them.